image

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[edit] English

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An image that represents image files

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from *im, root of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate.

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image (plural images)

  1. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
  2. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
  3. (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (see disk image, executable image and image copy)
    Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.
  4. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.
  5. (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.
  6. (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
mental picture
computing: file
characteristic as perceived by others
math: something mapped to by a function
math: subset of codomain

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image (third-person singular simple present images, present participle imaging, simple past and past participle imaged)

  1. (transitive) To represent symbolically
  2. (transitive) To reflect, mirror
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, chapter 2, St. Edmundsbury:
      […] 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!.
  3. (transitive) To create an image of.
  4. (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

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[edit] French

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From Latin imago (“a copy, likeness, image”).

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image f. (plural images)

  1. picture, image
  2. (TV, film) frame

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image

  1. first-person singular present indicative of imager
  2. third-person singular present indicative of imager
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of imager
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of imager
  5. second-person singular imperative of imager

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[edit] Norwegian Bokmål

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Borrowing from English image

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image m. and n.

  1. image (how one wishes to be perceived by others)

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    Inflection of image
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Bokmål m image imagen imager imagene
Bokmål n image imaget image/ imaga/imagene

[edit] Norwegian Nynorsk

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Borrowing from English image

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[edit] Noun

image m. and n.

  1. image (how one wishes to be perceived by others)

[edit] Inflection

    Inflection of image
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Bokmål m image imagen imager imagene
Bokmål n image imageet image imagea/imageene
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