Noun

(en noun)

An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.

The Bible forbids the worship of graven images .

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A mental picture of something not real or not present.

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(computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (see disk image, executable image and image copy)

Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.

A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.

(mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.

The number 6 is the image of 3 under ''f'' that is defined as f(x) = 2*x.

(mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.

The image of this step function is the set of integers.

(obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.

* Dryden

The face of things a frightful image bears.

Noun

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(chiefly, Internet) Misleading]] presentation of images for [[propaganda, propagandistic or otherwise ulterior purposes, involving staging, deceptive modification, and/or the addition or omission of significant context.

* 2006 , The New Atlantis , issues 12–14, page 146 (Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center):

Also, fauxtography , coined by bloggers writing about the Israel–Lebanon conflict in summer 2006 to describe both the deceptive modification of pictures by newswire photojournalists and the intentional staging of tragic scenes for propagandistic photos in the media.

* 2007 November 5, Aaron Peckham, Mo’ Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined , page 103] ([http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/products/?isbn=0740768751 Andrews McMeel Publishing; ISBN 0740768751, 9780740768750):

Various bloggers have uncovered several cases of fauxtography in Reuters’ photo coverage of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict.

* 2007 November 28, Cynthia Baron, Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Sleuths, Truths, and Fauxtography , main title (illustrated edition; Course Technology Printer; ISBN 1598634054, 9781598634051):

Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Sleuths, Truths, and Fauxtography

* 2008 , David D. Perlmutter, Blogwars , page xiii] ([http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/?view=usa&view=usa&ci=0195305574 Oxford University Press; ISBN 0195305574, 9780195305579):

Bloggers noted that when, in February 2005, California’s Barbara Boxer gave a speech on the floor of the Senate, she held in her hands notes that were a printout from BradDeLong.com, the eponymous blog by a professor of economics at UC, Berkeley. Conversely, mainstream photojournalism was shaken to its core by right-wing bloggers who pointed out errors, malfeasance, inconsistencies, miscaptions, and outright fakery in press “fauxtography ” from the 2006 Israel–Lebanon war.