image

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 80.88 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.

2. noun A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
3. noun A mental picture of something not real or not present.
4. noun A statue or idol.
5. 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.

6. noun A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
7. noun The value a function maps some argument to.

   The number 6 is the image of 3 under f that is defined as f(x) = 2x.

8. noun The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.

   The image of this step function is the set of integers.

Similar words

picture figure effigy simulacrum double prototype trope persona epitome figure of speech

Often followed by

of is and in that to as was on

Word family

imaged imager imagers imagery images imaging