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noun
- An optically formed duplicate or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction of an object formed by a lens or mirror.
- A mental picture of something not real or present.
- An exact copy of data in a computer file transferred to another medium.
- To make or produce a likeness of.
- To picture something mentally; imagine.
- To translate photographs or other pictures by computer into numbers that can be transmitted to a remote location and then reconverted into pictures by another computer.
- To visualize something, as by magnetic resonance imaging.
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