Image - Definition

n 1: an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced
images upon her too awful to contemplate" [syn: image,
mental image]
2: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to
the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"
[syn: persona, image]
3: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or
abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the
pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images
projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn:
picture, image, icon, ikon]
4: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good
breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good
father" [syn: prototype, paradigm, epitome, image]
5: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [syn:
trope, figure of speech, figure, image]
6: someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an
actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very
image of her mother" [syn: double, image, look-alike]
7: (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for
which a function is defined; "the image of f(x) = x^2 is the
set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the
function is the set of all real numbers" [syn: image,
range, range of a function]
8: the general impression that something (a person or
organization or product) presents to the public; "although
her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music
and pageantry"; "the company tried to project an altruistic
image"
9: a representation of a person (especially in the form of
sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the
emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone" [syn: effigy,
image, simulacrum]
v 1: render visible, as by means of MRI
2: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on
horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk
in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision,
project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image]