image

Significado

Noun

1. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
2. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
3. A statue or idol.
4. A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
5. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
6. What a function maps to.
7. The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
8. A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
9. (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.

Verb

1. To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
2. To reflect, mirror.
3. To create an image of.
4. To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

Con guión como

im‧age

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɪmɪd͡ʒ/

Etimología

From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Displaced native Old English biliþe (“an image, a representation, resemblance, likeness; pattern, example”). Doublet of imago.