Akademik

imaging

noun

1. the ability to form mental images of things or events (Freq. 1)

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he could still hear her in his imagination

• Syn: ↑imagination, ↑imagery, ↑mental imagery

• Derivationally related forms: ↑image (for: ↑imagery), ↑image, ↑imagine (for: ↑imagination)

• Hypernyms: ↑representational process

• Hyponyms:

↑mind's eye, ↑vision, ↑picturing, ↑envisioning, ↑dream, ↑dreaming, ↑chimera, ↑chimaera, ↑evocation, ↑pretense, ↑pretence, ↑make-believe

2. (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body

• Syn: ↑tomography

• Topics: ↑medicine, ↑medical specialty

• Hypernyms: ↑pictorial representation, ↑picturing

• Hyponyms:

↑X-raying, ↑X-radiation, ↑sonography, ↑ultrasonography, ↑echography, ↑ultrasound, ↑positron emission tomography, ↑PET, ↑magnetic resonance imaging, ↑MRI, ↑radioscopy, ↑radiology

Useful english dictionary. 2012.