image
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
< Middle English < Old French < Latin imāgō (“‘a copy, likeness, image’”) < *im, root of imitari (“‘to copy, imitate’”); see imitate.
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image (plural images)
- An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (see disk image, executable image and image copy)
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.
- (mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.
- The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2*x.
- (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
- The image of this step function is the set of integers.
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- (representation): picture
- (mental picture): idea
- (something mapped to): value
- (subset of the codomain): range
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graphical representation
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mental picture
computing: file
characteristic as perceived by others
math: something mapped to by a function
math: subset of codomain
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[edit] Verb
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to image (third-person singular simple present images, present participle imaging, simple past and past participle imaged)
- to represent symbolically
- To reflect, mirror
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (computing) To convert an idea to an image.
- (computing) To create a complete backup copy of a filesystem.
[edit] Quotations
- we look into a pair of eyes deep as our own, imaging our own, but all unconscious of us; to whom we for the time are become as spirits and invisible!
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 2, St. Edmundsbury
[edit] External links
- image in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- image in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Latin imago (“‘a copy, likeness, image’”)
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[edit] Noun
image f. (plural images)

