IMAGERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imagery mean? 

• IMAGERY (noun)
  The noun IMAGERY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: IMAGERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMAGERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ability to form mental images of things or events

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

imagery; imagination; imaging; mental imagery

Context example:

he could still hear her in his imagination

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 

In the satellite imagery, major blooms occurred in every year between 2011 and 2018 except 2013.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

The imagery produced by the telescope will also help advance research in Brazil, by supporting studies on asteroids, comets, and stars.

(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

Initially, the new island was relatively oval and attached to its neighboring island to the west. However, by April analysis of satellite imagery found that its shape had changed dramatically.

(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)

A truly striking result released in the Nature papers is the beautiful new imagery of Jupiter’s poles captured by Juno’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument.

(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)

The IRIS imagery focuses in on material of 30,000 kelvins at the base, or foot points, of the CME.

(Observing a Gigantic Eruption of Solar Material, NASA)

The researchers used satellite imagery to identify places where coastal ice sheets had melted, creating areas of open water called polynyas, which, they observed, occurred in the same places every year.

(Scientists describe how 'upside-down rivers' of warm water break Antarctica's ice shelf, Wikinews)

It will be able to identify species from imagery and sound and use satellites to send real-time data remotely to researchers.

(Amazon jungle animals to be monitored by sensors, Agência Brasil)

It uses breathing methods, guided imagery, and other practices to relax the body and mind and help reduce stress.

(Mindfulness relaxation, NCI Dictionary)

His mirror of vision was silver-clear, a flashing, dazzling palimpsest of imagery.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The same circular pattern also showed up in ArcticDEM, a high-resolution digital elevation model of the entire Arctic derived from commercial satellite imagery.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)