imaginal: signification et définitions

A representation of the form of a person or object, such as a painting or photograph. A sculptured likeness.

Physics An optically formed duplicate, counterpart, or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction formed by a lens or mirror.

One that closely or exactly resembles another: He is the image of his uncle. Likeness; semblance: Genesis says that man was made in the image of God.

The opinion or concept of something that is held by the public: the public's image of business leaders as greedy. The concept or character projected to the public, as by a person or institution, especially as interpreted by the mass media: an actor who tried to convey an image of refined beauty.

A typical example or embodiment: That child is the image of good health.

A mental picture of something not real or present: Our image of the cottage did not conform with reality.

A vivid description or representation in words, especially a metaphor or simile: The poem uses the image of a barren tree to convey feelings of desolation.

Mathematics A set of values of a function corresponding to a particular subset of a domain.

Computers An exact replica of the contents of a storage device, such as a hard disk, stored on a second storage device, such as a network server.

Obsolete An apparition.

To make or produce a likeness of: imaged the poet in bronze. To mirror or reflect: a statue imaged in the water. To make a visual representation of (an object) using remote scanning or technology such as magnetic resonance imaging: imaged the diseased kidneys; imaged the surface of Mars.

To symbolize or typify: a kneeling woman imaging the nation's grief.

To picture mentally; imagine or visualize: imaged each dive before doing it.

To describe, especially so vividly as to evoke a mental picture: The passage images what it's like to grow up poor.

Computers To print (a file) using a laser printer, imagesetter, direct-to-plate press, or similar device. To transmit (an exact replica of the contents of a storage device) to another storage device: imaged the hard drive to the server.

An insect in its sexually mature adult stage after metamorphosis.

Psychology An often idealized image of a person, usually a parent, formed in childhood and persisting unconsciously into adulthood.