What is the meaning of image?

noun

  • An iconic mental representation.
    • usage: "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"
  • Jungian psychology. ( a personal facade that one presents to the world)
    • usage: "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"
  • A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.
    • usage: "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
  • A standard or typical example.
    • usage: "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
  • Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
  • Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor. )
    • usage: "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother"
  • Mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined. (
    • usage: "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"
  • The general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public.
    • usage: "although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry"; "the company tried to project an altruistic image"
  • A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture. )
    • usage: "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"

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APAWordNet. (2010). image. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/image/definitions/1210058
ChicagoWordNet. 2010. "image" http://smartdefine.org/image/definitions/1210058 (accessed September 20, 2026).
HarvardWordNet 2010, image, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/image/definitions/1210058>.
MLAWordNet. "image" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/image/definitions/1210058>
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