image

Meanings

Noun

• An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
• A mental picture of something not real or not present.
• A statue or idol.
• A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
• A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be, perceived by others.
• Something mapped to by a function.
• The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
• A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
• Show; appearance; cast.

Verb

• To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
• To reflect, mirror.
• To create an image of.
• To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

Related

Similar words

• picture
• idea
• value
• range

Narrower meaning words

• inverse image
• macroimage
• mental image
• microimage
• mirror image
• real image
• spitting image
• virtual image

Origin

• From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō ("a copy, likeness, image"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari; see imitate.