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noun
The technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The use of mental images to alter a person's perceptions or behaviors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
present participle and gerund of image
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
(medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: tomography
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pictorial representation, picturing
Narrower terms: X-raying, X-radiation, sonography, ultrasonography, echography, ultrasound, positron emission tomography, PET, magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, radioscopy, radiology
noun
the ability to form mental images of things or events
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: imagination, imagery, mental imagery
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: representational process
Narrower terms: mind's eye, vision, picturing, envisioning, dream, dreaming, chimera, chimaera, evocation, pretense, pretence, make-believe
History
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