1. 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
    
2. An iconic mental representation
   "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"; "He closed his eyes and conjured a mental image of his childhood home";
   - mental image
    
3. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
   "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty";
   - persona
    
4. A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
   "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone";
   - effigy, simulacrum
    
5. 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"
    
6. A standard, typical or perfect example
   "he provided America with an image of the good father";
   - prototype, paradigm, epitome
    
7. Someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
   "she's the very image of her mother";
   - double, look-alike
    
8. Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
   "The author's use of images made the text rich with meaning";
   - trope, figure of speech, figure
    
9. (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
    
10. (computing) an exact copy, e.g. a file that contains a copy of an entire disk drive
    "He created a disk image before upgrading the system"

1. Render visible, as by means of MRI
   "The radiologist imaged the patient's brain"
    
2. Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
   "He could image the perfect ending to his novel";
   - visualize, visualise [Brit], envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture

Derived forms: imaging, images, imaged

Type of: actor, appearance, conceive of, doer, effect, envisage, example, ideate [informal], imagine, impression, internal representation, mental representation, model, representation, rhetorical device, set, visual aspect, visualise [Brit], visualize, worker

Encyclopedia: Image, William