image

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a visual representation of an object, scene, person or abstraction, produced on a surface

   The photographer printed the image on pieces of tin.

2. 2
   noun

   the general impression that something presents to the public

   Bad customer service can harm a company's image.

3. 3
   noun

   (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world

   a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty

4. 4
   noun

   an iconic mental representation

   My imagination forced images upon myself too awful to contemplate.

5. 5
   noun

   (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

6. 6
   noun

   A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.

   The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.

7. 7
   noun

   A mental picture of something not real or not present.

   Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

8. 8
   noun

   A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)

   Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.

Etymology

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 (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.