image : Idioms & Phrases

Aft"er-im`age noun

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1. The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.

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• noun a mental image that is similar to an auditory perception
  

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• noun functional magnetic resonance imaging that relies on intrinsic changes in hemoglobin oxygenation
  BOLD FMRI.
  

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• a micrometer in which two images of an object are formed in the field, usually by the two halves of a bisected lens which are movable along their line of section by a screw, and distances are determined by the number of screw revolutions necessary to bring the points to be measured into optical coincidence. When the two images are formed by a bisected objects glass, it is called a divided-object-glass micrometer, and when the instrument is large and equatorially mounted, it is known as a heliometer.

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• (Elec.), a collection of electrical points regarded as forming, by an analogy with optical phenomena, an image of certain other electrical points, and used in the solution of electrical problems. Sir W. Thomson.

Webster 1913

• noun an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels
  bitmap.
  

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• noun a form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain
  fMRI.
  

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• noun a material effigy that is worshipped
  god; idol.
  
  • thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
  • money was his god

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• an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.

Webster 1913

• noun a destroyer of images used in religious worship
  iconoclast.
  

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• one who destroys images; an iconoclast.

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• noun the compression of graphics for storage or transmission
  

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• a sculptor.

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• noun 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
  orthicon.
  

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• (Physics), the image of the retinal blood vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane.

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• noun an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer
  digital scanner; scanner.
  

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• the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images themselves.

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• noun a mental image produced by the imagination
  imagination image.
  

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• noun the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images
  MRI.
  

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• noun a mental image of something previously experienced
  

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• noun an iconic mental representation
  image.
  
  • her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate

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• noun a likeness in which left and right are reversed
  reflexion; reflection.
  

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• noun the relation of opposition between crystals or molecules that are reflections of one another
  enantiomorphism.
  

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• noun a perfect likeness or counterpart
  

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• noun a mental image produced by the imagination
  imagination image.
  

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• noun a reflected optical image (as seen in a plane mirror)
  

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• (Optics), a point or system of points, on one side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit the system of rays which actually exists on the other side of the mirror or lens.

Webster 1913

• noun a mental image that is similar to a visual perception
  visualization; visualisation.
  
• noun a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system
  visual percept.
  

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