image

  1. Noun.  An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
  2. Noun.  A mental picture of something not real or not present.
  3. Noun.  (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (see disk image, executable image and image copy).
  4. Noun.  A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.
  5. Noun.  (mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.
  6. Noun.  (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
  7. Verb.  (transitive) To represent symbolically.
  8. Verb.  (transitive) To reflect, mirror.
  9. Verb.  (transitive) To create an image of.
  10. Verb.  (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.