| imaginary | Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. "Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?" (Addison) <mathematics> Imaginary expression or quantity, points, lines, surfaces, etc, imagined to exist, although by reason of certain changes of a figure they have in fact ceased to have a real existence. Synonym: Ideal, fanciful, chimerical, visionary, fancied, unreal, illusive. Origin: L. Imaginarius: cf. F. Imaginaire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| imagination | 1. The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines. "Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination." (Glanvill) "Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present, or as if they were present." (Bacon) 2. The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy. "The imagination of common language the productive imagination of philosophers is nothing but the representative process plus the process to which I would give the name of the "comparative."" (Sir W. Hamilton) "The power of the mind to decompose its conceptions, and to recombine the elements of them at its pleasure, is called its faculty of imagination." (I. Taylor) "The business of conception is to present us with an exact transcript of what we have felt or perceived. But we have moreover a power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones together, so as to form new wholes of our creation. I shall employ the word imagination to express this power." (Stewart) 3. The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal. "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact . . . The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." (Shak) 4. A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion. Synonym: Conception, idea, conceit, fancy, device, origination, invention, scheme, design, purpose, contrivance. Imagination, Fancy. These words have, to a great extent, been interchanged by our best writers, and considered as strictly synonymous. A distinction, however, is now made between them which more fully exhibits their nature. Properly speaking, they are different exercises of the same general power the plastic or creative faculty. Imagination consists in taking parts of our conceptions and combining them into new forms and images more select, more striking, more delightful, more terrible, etc, than those of ordinary nature. It is the higher exercise of the two. It creates by laws more closely connected with the reason; it has strong emotion as its actuating and formative cause; it aims at results of a definite and weighty character. Milton's fiery lake, the debates of his Pandemonium, the exquisite scenes of his Paradise, are all products of the imagination. Fancy moves on a lighter wing; it is governed by laws of association which are more remote, and sometimes arbitrary or capricious. Hence the term fanciful, which exhibits fancy in its wilder flights. It has for its actuating spirit feelings of a lively, gay, and versatile character; it seeks to please by unexpected combinations of thought, startling contrasts, flashes of brilliant imagery, etc. Pope's Rape of the Lock is an exhibition of fancy which has scarcely its equal in the literature of any country. "This, for instance, Wordworth did in respect of the words 'imagination' and 'fancy.' Before he wrote, it was, I suppose, obscurely felt by most that in 'imagination' there was more of the earnest, in 'fancy' of the play of the spirit; that the first was a loftier faculty and gift than the second; yet for all this words were continually, and not without loss, confounded. He first, in the preface to his Lyrical Ballads, rendered it henceforth impossible that any one, who had read and mastered what he has written on the two words, should remain unconscious any longer of the important difference between them." . "The same power, which we should call fancy if employed on a production of a light nature, would be dignified with the title of imagination if shown on a grander scale." (C. J. Smith) Origin: OE. Imaginacionum, F. Imagination, fr. L. Imaginatio. See Imagine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| imaging | Radiological production of a clinical image using X-rays, ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance, radionuclide scanning, thermography, etc.; especially, cross-sectional imaging, such as ultrasonography, CT, or MRI. Origin: see image (05 Mar 2000) |
| imaging agents | Proteins developed to act as imaging or contrast agents for use with various types of bodyscanners. The proteins, usually antibodies, bind to specific tissue types, usually tumours, and allow the scanner to distinguish those tissues from the surrounding tissue very easily. (14 Nov 1997) |
| imaging department | The diagnostic radiology department. See: imaging, radiology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| imago | The sexually mature stage of an insect's life cycle. (09 Oct 1997) |
Synonyms : Imaginations
Synonyms : 3-D Image, 3-D Imaging, Computer-Generated 3D Imaging, Three-Dimensional Image, Three-Dimensional Imaging, Computer Generated, 3 D Image, 3 D Imaging, 3-D Images, 3-D Imagings, 3D Imaging, Computer-Generated, 3D Imagings, Computer-Generated, Image, 3-D
| ima |
IMA may stand for: *The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, one of the United Kingdom's professional bodies for mathematicians.*The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, a body affiliated with the University of Minnesota.*The Institute of Management Accountants, the body in the United States which certifies Certified Management Accountants. ...
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| image intensifier |
An image intensifier is a device that amplifies visible light from an image so that a dimly lit scene can be viewed by a camera or by eye. Unlike an infrared camera, an image intensifier does not work in total darkness, when there is no light to amplify. It does, however, create a more realistic image, because the intensities it shows are related to true optical intensity and not to temperature. ...
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| imagination |
Imagination is, in general, the power or process of producing mental images and ideas. The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "imaging" or "imagery" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination. ...
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| imatinib mesylate |
A drug that is being studied for its ability to inhibit the growth of certain cancers. It interferes with a portion of the protein produced by the bcr/abl oncogene. Also called Gleevec and STI571.
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| imagery |
A technique in which the person focuses on positive images in his or her mind.
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| IMA | the ability to form mental images of things or events |
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| IMA | possible to conceive or imagine |
| IMA | not based on fact |
| IMA | a creature of the imagination |
| IMA | a creature of the imagination |
| IMA | a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 |
| IMA | the part of a complex number that has the square root of -1 as a factor |
| IMA | the part of a complex number that has the square root of -1 as a factor |
| IMA | a place said to exist in religious or fictional writings |
| IMA | the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses |
| IMA | the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems |
| IMA | the ability to form mental images of things or events |