| image compression | the compression of graphics for storage or transmission |
bitmap
electronic image | an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels |
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 |
idol
graven image
god | a material effigy that is worshipped, thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, money was his god |
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 |
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 |
scanner digital scanner
image scanner | an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer |
| 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 |
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 |
visual percept
visual image | a percept that arises from the eyes, an image in the visual system |
| memory image | a mental image of something previously experienced |
visual image visualization
visualisation | a mental image that is similar to a visual perception |
| auditory image | a mental image that is similar to an auditory perception |
prototype
paradigm
epitome
image | a standard or typical example, he is the prototype of good breeding, he provided America with an image of the good father |
trope
figure of speech
figure image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
image
range range of a function | (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined, the image of f(x) x^ is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers |
double
image
look-alike | someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor), he could be Gingrich's double, she's the very image of her mother |
| iconoclast image breaker | a destroyer of images used in religious worship |
| virtual image | a reflected optical image (as seen in a plane mirror) |
enantiomorphism
mirror-image relation | the relation of opposition between crystals or molecules that are reflections of one another |
phobia
phobic disorder
phobic neurosis | an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations, phobic disorder is a general term for all phobias |
battle fatigue
combat fatigue
combat neurosis
shell shock | a mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare |
neurosis
neuroticism
psychoneurosis | a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction |
hysteria
hysterical neurosis | neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions |
| anxiety neurosis | characterized by diffuse anxiety and often somatic manifestations of fear |
depersonalization
depersonalisation
depersonalization disorder
depersonalisation disorder
depersonalization neurosis
depersonalisation neurosis | emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness |
visualize
visualise
envision
project
fancy
see
figure
picture image | 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 |
| image | render visible, as by means of MRI |