Image n. 1.An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance. "Even like a stony image, cold and numb." "Whose is this image and superscription?" "This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna." "And God created man in his own image."
2.Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,... thou shalt not bow down thyself to them."
3.Show; appearance; cast. "The face of things a frightful image bears."
4.A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea. "Can we conceive Image of aught delightful, soft, or great?"
5.(Rhet.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
6.(Opt.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.
Electrical image. See under Electrical. Image breaker, one who destroys images; an iconoclast.
Image graver, Image maker, a sculptor.
Image worship, the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images themselves.
Image Purkinje (Physics), the image of the retinal blood vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane.
Virtual image (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.
