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IMAGERY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
The ability to form mental images of things or events
Example:
he could still hear her in his imagination
Synonyms:
imagery; imagination; imaging; mental imagery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("imagery" is a kind of...):
representational process (any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imagery"):
mind's eye (the imaging of remembered or invented scenes)
vision (a vivid mental image)
envisioning; picturing (visual imagery)
dream; dreaming (a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep)
chimaera; chimera (a grotesque product of the imagination)
evocation (imaginative re-creation)
make-believe; pretence; pretense (imaginative intellectual play)
Derivation:
image (imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind)
Context examples:
The spacecraft's JunoCam also obtained visible-light imagery of the new cyclone.
(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)
Examples of mind-body practices include meditation, hypnosis, guided imagery, yoga, and tai chi.
(Mind-body practice, NCI Dictionary)
Examples of mind-body modalities include meditation, hypnosis, guided imagery, yoga, and tai chi.
(Mind-body modality, NCI Dictionary)
Also called guided imagery.
(Imagery, NCI Dictionary)
Also called imagery.
(Guided imagery, NCI Dictionary)
The idea of Edward's being a clergyman, and living in a small parsonage-house, diverted him beyond measure;—and when to that was added the fanciful imagery of Edward reading prayers in a white surplice, and publishing the banns of marriage between John Smith and Mary Brown, he could conceive nothing more ridiculous.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The field of view for this imagery is about five Earths wide and about seven-and-a-half Earths tall.
(Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material, NASA)
By June, satellite imagery showed that a sandbar had formed, closing off the crater.
(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)
Among other factors, the site was chosen for its geographical location, as the telescopes in Brazil and Russia will be positioned to capture complementary imagery.
(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)
Using imagery of the ice surface from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instruments aboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites, he soon noticed a circular pattern some 114 miles to the southeast of Hiawatha Glacier.
(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)
