imaging – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
imaging
n.
forming of mental images to control bodily processes (Psychology); photographing of the interior of the body by means of certain techniques and instruments (Medicine)
image
v.
imagine; draw a likeness; describe; reflect; picture in the mind
Imaging
Imaging is the representation or reproduction of an object's form; especially a visual representation (i.e., the formation of an
image).
imaging
Noun
1. the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"
(synonym) imagination, imagery, mental imagery
(hypernym) representational process
(hyponym) mind's eye
(derivation) visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image
2. (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body
(synonym) tomography
(hypernym) pictorial representation, picturing
(hyponym) X-raying, X-radiation
(classification) medicine, medical specialty
image
Noun
1. an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"
(synonym) mental image
(hypernym) representation, mental representation, internal representation
(hyponym) imagination image, thought-image
(derivation) visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture
2. 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 movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
(synonym) picture, icon, ikon
(hypernym) representation
(hyponym) bitmap, electronic image
(derivation) visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture
3. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"
(synonym) persona
(hypernym) appearance, visual aspect
(classification) Jung, Carl Jung, Carl Gustav Jung
4. a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
(synonym) prototype, paradigm, epitome
(hypernym) model, example
(hyponym) concentrate
5. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
(synonym) trope, figure of speech, figure
(hypernym) rhetorical device
(hyponym) irony
(class) lens
(class) blind alley
6. someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother"
(synonym) double, look-alike
(hypernym) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
(hyponym) ringer, dead ringer, clone
7. a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"
(synonym) effigy, simulacrum
(hypernym) representation
(hyponym) Guy
(derivation) visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture
Verb
1. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
(synonym) visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture
(hypernym) imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
(verb-group) understand, realize, realise, see
(derivation) mental image
Imaging
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Image
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
imaging
Tests that produce pictures of areas inside the body.
imaging procedure
A method of producing pictures of areas inside the body.
