an iconic mental representation; her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate

[ Syn: mental image ]

(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty

[ Syn: persona ]

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

[ Syn: picture , icon , ikon ]

a standard or typical example; he is the prototype of good breeding; he provided America with an image of the good father

[ Syn: prototype , paradigm , epitome ]

language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

[ Syn: trope , figure of speech , figure ]

someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); he could be Gingrichs double; shes the very image of her mother

[ Syn: double , look-alike ]

(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

[ Syn: range , range of a function ]

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; the company tried to project an altruistic image'

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

[ Syn: effigy , simulacrum ]

render visible, as by means of MRI

imagine; conceive of; see in ones mind; I cant see him on horseback!; I can see what will happen; I can see a risk in this strategy

[ Syn: visualize , visualise , envision , project , fancy , see , figure , picture ]