Dictionary definition · image
noun
- an iconic mental representation"her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world"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"they showed us the pictures of their wedding"
- a standard or typical example"he is the prototype of good breeding"
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)"he could be Gingrich's double"
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined"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"although her popular image was contrived, it served to inspire music and pageantry"
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)"the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"
verb
- render visible, as by means of MRI
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind"I can't see him on horseback!"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).