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Image Definition

image

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English

Wikipedia has an article on: Image An image that represents image files

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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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Verb

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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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

image f. (plural images)

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

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Verb

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

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowing from English image

Pronunciation

Noun

image m. and n.

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

Inflection

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowing from English image

Pronunciation

Noun

image m. and n.

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

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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