image compression | the compression of graphics for storage or transmission |
photography picture taking | the act of taking and printing photographs |
filming cinematography motion-picture photography | the act of making a film |
bitmap electronic image | an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels |
cinema movie theater movie theatre movie house picture palace | a theater where films are shown |
effigy image simulacrum | 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 |
face card picture card court card | one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face |
gallery art gallery picture gallery | a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited |
Identikit Identikit picture | a likeness of a person's face constructed from descriptions given to police, uses a set of transparencies of various facial features that can be combined to build up a picture of the person sought |
idol graven image god | a material effigy that is worshipped, thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, money was his god |
kinescope picture tube television tube | a cathodeay tube in a television receiver, translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen |
motion-picture camera movie camera cineamera | a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession |
motion-picture film movie film cine-film | photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, to be used in a movie camera |
orthicon image orthicon | a now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera, electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons |
painting picture | graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface, a small painting by Picasso, he bought the painting as an investment, his pictures hang in the Louvre |
photograph photo exposure picture pic | a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide, recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material |
picture image icon ikon | 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 |
picture book | a book consisting chiefly of pictures |
picture frame | a framework in which a picture is mounted |
picture hat | a woman's dressy hat with a wide brim |
picture rail | rail fixed to a wall for hanging pictures |
picture window | a large window with a single pane (usually overlooking a view) |
pixel pel picture element | (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot), the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution |
roentgenogram X ray Xay Xay picture Xay photograph | a radiogram made by exposing photographic film to X rays, used in medical diagnosis |
scanner digital scanner image scanner | an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer |
stereo stereoscopic picture stereoscopic photograph | two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together |
subject content depicted object | something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation, a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject |
visual display unit VDU | (British) British term for video display |
wedding picture | photographs of bride and groom and their friends taken at their wedding |
appearance visual aspect | outward or visible aspect of a person or thing |
image | 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 |
persona image | (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world, a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty |
mirror image reflection reflexion | a likeness in which left and right are reversed |
spitting image | a perfect likeness or counterpart |
visual property | an attribute of vision |
heat content total heat enthalpy H | (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure, enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system capable of doing mechanical work |
visual range | distance at which a given standard object can be seen with the unaided eye |
visual system | the sensory system for vision |
visual cell | one of the cells of the retina that is sensitive to light |
visual area visual cortex | the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus |
striate cortex striate area first visual area area of Brodmann Brodmann's are | the part of the occipital cortex that receives the fibers of the optic radiation from the lateral geniculate body and is the primary receptive area for vision |
sight vision visual sense visual modality | the ability to see, the visual faculty |
acuity visual acuity sharp-sightedness | sharpness of vision, the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart) |
visual perception beholding seeing | perception by means of the eyes |
visual space | the visual perception of space |
vision visual sensation | the perceptual experience of seeing, the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision, he had a visual sensation of intense light |
picture | a typical example of some state or quality, the very picture of a modern general, she was the picture of despair |
content cognitive content mental object | the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned |
image mental image | an iconic mental representation, her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate |
imagination image thought-image | a mental image produced by the imagination |