Meaning of image | Babel Free

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1. A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
2. imagen, figura; representación;body ___ → ___ del cuerpo propio;
3. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
4. A representation of the form of a person or object, such as a painting or photograph.
5. A statue or idol.
6. A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
7. Physics An optically formed duplicate, counterpart, or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction formed by a lens or mirror.
   Physics
8. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
9. One that closely or exactly resembles another: He is the image of his uncle.
10. The value a function maps some argument to.
11. The opinion or concept of something that is held by the public: the public's image of business leaders as greedy.
12. The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
13. A typical example or embodiment: That child is the image of good health.
14. A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
15. A mental picture of something not real or present: Our image of the cottage did not conform with reality.
16. Show; appearance; cast.
    obsolete
17. A vivid description or representation in words, especially a metaphor or simile: The poem uses the image of a barren tree to convey feelings of desolation.
18. Mathematics A set of values of a function corresponding to a particular subset of a domain.
    Mathematics
19. Computers An exact replica of the contents of a storage device, such as a hard disk, stored on a second storage device, such as a network server.
    Computers

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Examples

“The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.”

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“Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.”

“Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.”

“Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.”

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

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

“The face of things a frightful image bears.”

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