meaning of image2

1. An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.
2.
Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
3.
Show; appearance; cast.
4.
A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
5.
A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
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The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see ones image in a mirror.
7.
To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
8.
To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
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image 1. graphics> Data representing a two-dimensional scene. A digital image is composed of pixels arranged in a rectangular array with a certain height and width. Each pixel may consist of one or more bits of information, representing the brightness of the image at that point and possibly including colour information encoded as RGB triples. Images are usually taken from the real world via a digital camera, frame grabber, or scanner; or they may be generated by computer, e. g. by ray tracing software. See also image formats, image processing.
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a representation of a person especially in the form of sculpture; "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperors tomb had his image carved in ">stone"


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