IMAGE

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, short for ~ne, from Latin imagin-, imago; perhaps akin to Latin imitari to imitate Date: 13th century a reproduction or imitation of the form of a person or thing, 2. the optical counterpart of an object produced by an optical device (as a lens or mirror) or an electronic device, a visual representation of something: as, a likeness of an object produced on a photographic material, a picture produced on an electronic display (as a television or computer screen), 3. exact likeness ; semblance , a person strikingly like another person , 4. a tangible or visible representation ; incarnation , an illusory form ; apparition , 5. a. a mental picture or impression of something , a mental conception held in common by members of a group and symbolic of a basic attitude and orientation , idea , concept , a vivid or graphic representation or description, figure of speech , a popular conception (as of a person, institution, or nation) projected especially through the mass media , a set of values given by a mathematical function (as a homomorphism) that corresponds to a particular subset of the domain, II. transitive verb (~d; imaging) Date: 14th century to call up a mental picture of ; imagine , to describe or portray in language especially in a vivid manner, 3. to create a representation of, to represent symbolically, 4. reflect , mirror , to make appear ; project , ~r noun