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