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1. An iconic mental representation
   "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate";
   - mental image
    
2. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
   "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty";
   - persona
    
3. A visual representation (of an object, scene, person or abstraction) produced on a surface
   "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them";
   - picture, icon, ikon
    
4. A standard, typical or perfect example
   "he provided America with an image of the good father";
   - prototype, paradigm, epitome
    
5. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
   - trope, figure of speech, figure
    
6. Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
   "she's the very image of her mother";
   - double, look-alike
    
7. (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
   "the image of f(x) = ximage2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers";
   - range, range of a function
    
8. The general impression that something (a person, organization or product) presents to the public
   "although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry"; "the company tried to project an altruistic image"
    
9. A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
   "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone";
   - effigy, simulacrum
    
10. (computing) an exact copy, e.g. a file that contains a copy of an entire disk drive

1. Render visible, as by means of MRI
    
2. Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
   - visualize, visualise [Brit], envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture

Derived forms: imaged, images, imaging

Type of: appearance, conceive of, effect, envisage, example, ideate, imagine, impression, individual, internal representation, mental representation, model, mortal, person, representation, rhetorical device, set, somebody, someone, soul, visual aspect, visualise [Brit], visualize

Encyclopedia: Image, William