imaging

English

Verb

imaging

1. present participle and gerund of image

Noun

imaging (usually uncountable, plural imagings)

1. The technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts.
2. The use of mental images to alter a person's perceptions or behaviors.

Synonyms

• (use of mental images): visualization

Hyponyms

• (technique or practice of creating images of the invisible): magnetic resonance imaging, sonography, thermography, tomography

Derived terms

• bioimaging
• brain imaging
• fluorimaging
• fluoroimaging
• functional magnetic resonance imaging
• functional MR imaging
• ghost imaging
• immunoimaging
• in-office imaging
• lucky imaging
• macroimaging
• microimaging
• myoimaging
• nanoimaging
• neuroimaging
• nonimaging
• phosphoimaging
• phosphorimaging
• photoimaging
• speckle imaging
• stereoimaging
• thermal imaging