image

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An image that represents image files

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

image (plural images)

An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
- 2012 March 1, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 106:
  Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
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)
Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.
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.

graphical representation

Arabic: صورة (ar) (suura(t)) f
Armenian: պատկեր (hy) (patker)
Azeri: şəkil (az)
Breton: skeudenn (br)
Catalan: imatge (ca) f
Czech: obraz (cs) m
Danish: billede (da)
Dutch: beeld (nl) n, beeltenis (nl) f, plaatje (nl) n
Esperanto: bildo (eo)
Finnish: kuva (fi)
French: image (fr) f
Galician: imaxe (gl) f
German: Bild (de) n
Greek: εικόνα (el) (ikóna) f, απεικόνιση (el) (apikónisi) f, απείκασμα (el) (apíkasma) n, πανομοιότυπο (el) (panomiótipo)
Haitian Creole: imaj
Hebrew: תמונה (he) (temuna) f
Hungarian: kép (hu)
Icelandic: mynd (is) f
Irish: íomhá (ga) f
Italian: immagine (it) f
Japanese: 像 (ja) (zō), 肖像 (ja) (shōzō), イメージ (ja) (imēji)
Latgalian: atvaigs
Latvian: attēls (lv) m

mental picture

computing: file

characteristic as perceived by others

math: something mapped to by a function

math: subset of codomain

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

(transitive) To represent symbolically
(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!.
(transitive) To create an image of.
(transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.