Imaging

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

imaging
    n 1: the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he
         could still hear her in his imagination" [syn:
         {imagination}, {imaging}, {imagery}, {mental imagery}]
    2: (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body
       [syn: {imaging}, {tomography}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Image \Im"age\ ([i^]m"[asl]j; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Imaged}
   ([i^]m"[asl]jd; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. {Imaging}.]
   1. To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake
      imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. "Shrines
      of imaged saints." --J. Warton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of
      by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
      [1913 Webster]

            Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore,
            And image charms he must behold no more. --Pope.
      [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

imaging

   <graphics> The production of graphic {images}, either from a
   video camera or from digitally generated data (see
   {visualisation}), or the recording of such images on
   microfilm, videotape or laser disk.

   See also {scanner}.

   (1997-07-20)