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Definitions: Imaging |
ImagingNoun1. The ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination". 2. (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "imaging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Imaging |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The science of photography is not quite a subset of imaging, because it includes attempts to construct images which have little relation to the physical (such as double exposures, lens effects, etc).
Imaging also includes activities such as:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Imaging."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| IMR | English | Imaging microwave radiometer | N/A |
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Synonyms: ImagingSynonyms: imagery (n), imagination (n), mental imagery (n), tomography (n). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Imaging Nathan (1999) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph simultaneously records, in unprecedented detail, ...Credit: NASA. |  | These pictures from the Hubble telescope's imaging spectrograph provide a new and ...Credit: NASA. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These tests are called renal imaging. (references) | |
Lambe, E.K. Dyslexia, gender, and brain imaging. (references) | ||
These may include laboratory tests and imaging procedures. (references) | ||
Business | Supplies for imaging equipment have great potential if competitively priced. (references) | |
They employ state-of-the-art imaging, infection controls and diagnostic equipment. (references) | ||
The focus was on modernization of imaging equipment and emergency response equipment. (references) | ||
Economic History | Australia | The document management and imaging markets have matured over the last two years. (references) |
India | Cardiology equipment constitutes 20 percent of the total market, followed by imaging system accounting for 15 percent of the market. (references) | |
Uae | The US commands a major market share with regards to imaging and monitoring equipment, ventilators, and life support and operating theater equipment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Imaging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 41.41% of the time. "Imaging" is used about 198 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 41.41% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Noun (singular) | 24.75% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 18.18% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.65% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (common) | 1.01% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 198 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Israel | Elbit Medical Imaging Limited | Switzerland | Gretag Imaging Holding AG |
| USA | AFP Imaging Corporation | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "imaging": 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging ♦ Acupuncture imaging ♦ Aura Imaging Photography ♦ Diagnostic Imaging ♦ Echo-Planar Imaging ♦ electronic imaging ♦ functional magnetic resonance imaging ♦ Gated Blood-Pool Imaging ♦ imaging block ♦ imaging model ♦ imaging order ♦ imaging procedures ♦ imaging radar ♦ imaging sensor ♦ imaging system ♦ Magnetic Resonance Imaging ♦ nuclear magnetic resonance imaging ♦ perfusion magnetic resonance imaging ♦ photoelectric imaging sensors ♦ Radionuclide Imaging ♦ terahertz pulse imaging ♦ Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "imaging": lung-imaging, print-imaging, radar-imaging, re-imaging, self-imaging. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
digital imaging | 1,173 |
imaging | 736 |
document imaging | 614 |
imaging software | 420 |
medical imaging | 335 |
magnetic resonance imaging | 250 |
diagnostic imaging | 213 |
thermal imaging | 211 |
satellite imaging | 167 |
space imaging | 118 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "imaging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 想象 (Envisage, Envisaged, Envisaging, Fancied, Fancying, imagine, imagined, Imagining). (various references) | |
Danish | billeddannelse. (various references) | |
Dutch | imaging. (various references) | |
Finnish | kuvantaminen. (various references) | |
French | imageur (imager), formation d'images, formation d'image. (various references) | |
German | Bildzusammenstellung, Bildsynthese (generative computer graphics, picture synthesis). (various references) | |
Greek | κλινική εικόνα, εικόνιση, απεικόνιση (depiction, map, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, representation, typification). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ""מי" (simulation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | leképezés. (various references) | |
Italian | infografica (computer graphics, electronic imaging), IRM delle ghiandole salivari (salivary gland MRI, salivary gland MRI magnetic resonance imaging), informatica grafica (computer graphics, electronic imaging), imaging cardio-vascolare (cardiovascular imaging), IRM della tiroide (magnetic resonance imaging of the thyroid, MRI of the thyroid), grafica computerizzata (computer graphics, electronic imaging), grafica informatica (computer graphics, electronic imaging), formazione d'immagini della Terra (earth imaging), risonanza magnetica con sequenza a contrasto di fase (phase-contrast imaging), diagnostica per immagini (magnetic resonance imaging), apparecchio di ripresa per immagini (imaging camera), computer grafica (computer graphics, electronic imaging), modello di figurazione (imaging model), ordine delle immagini (imaging order), ottenimento di immagini mediante l'acustica (acoustic imagery, acoustic imaging), radar ottico con formazione di immagini (imaging LIDAR), radar per la registrazione di immagini (imaging radar), risonanza magnetica per immagini della laringe (laryngeal magnetic resonance imaging, laryngeal MRI), sistema di visualizzazione confocale a scansione laser (laser scanning confocal imaging system), sistema di immagini mediche (medical imaging system), sistema di immagine (imaging system), sensore per formazione di immagini (imaging sensor), RMI della laringe (laryngeal magnetic resonance imaging, laryngeal MRI), RMI del rachide e delle articolazioni (neurospinal magnetic resonance imaging, neurospinal MRI), rappresentazione radar dell'immagine (radar imaging), risonanza magnetica per immagini funzionale (functional magnetic resonance imaging, functional MRI), risonanza magnetica cerebrale per immagini (brain magnetic resonance imaging, brain MRI, cerebral magnetic resonance imaging, cerebral MRI), risonanza magnetica per immagini del rachide e delle articolazioni (neurospinal magnetic resonance imaging, neurospinal MRI), risonanza magnetica per immagini anatomica (anatomical magnetic resonance imaging, anatomical MRI), risonanza magnetica per immagini ad alta definizione (high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging, high-resolution MRI), risonanza magnetica delle ghiandole salivari (salivary gland MRI, salivary gland MRI magnetic resonance imaging), risonanza magnetica della tiroide (magnetic resonance imaging of the thyroid, MRI of the thyroid), risonanza magnetica con sequenze gradient echo pesate in T2 (T2-weighted gradient-echo pulse sequence, T2-weighted imaging sequence), tomografia ad emissione positronica PET (PET imaging, positron emission tomography imaging), RMI cerebrale (brain magnetic resonance imaging, brain MRI, cerebral magnetic resonance imaging, cerebral MRI). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 磁気共鳴"像 (magnetic resonance imaging). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じききょうめいがぞう (magnetic resonance imaging). (various references) | |
Korean | "상 진찰. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imagingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | formação de imagens. (various references) | |
Russian | представлять себе/....формирование изображения. (various references) | |
Spanish | formación de imágenes. (various references) | |
Swedish | optoelektronisk positionssensor (photoelectric imaging sensors), optoelektronisk impulssensor (photoelectric imaging sensors), datorgrafik (computer graphics, electronic imaging), återgivningsordningsföljd (imaging order). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "imaging": imagings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "imaging": pilgrimaging, reimaging. (additional references) | |
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"Imaging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imageing, imagen, Imagin, Imagina, imagings, immagini, inaging, indagini, miraging. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "imaging" (pronounced i"mijing) |
| 5 | -m i j i ng | damaging, rummaging. |
| 4 | -i j i ng | acknowledging, averaging, disparaging, encouraging, foraging, hemorrhaging, leveraging, messaging, micromanaging, mismanaging, mortgaging, packaging, pillaging, presaging, ravaging, repackaging, salvaging, savaging. |
| 3 | -j i ng | aging, alleging, arbitraging, arranging, avenging, besieging, bridging, bulging, challenging, changing, charging, converging, cringing, discharging, discouraging, disengaging, dislodging, diverging, divulging, dodging, dredging, edging, emerging, engaging, enlarging, enraging, exchanging, fledging, forging, fudging, gauging, gouging, grudging, hedging, indulging, infringing, judging, lodging, lounging, lunging, managing, merging, mischarging, nudging, obliging, outraging, overcharging, paging, pledging, plunging, purging, raging, rampaging, ranging, rearranging, recharging, resurging, scavenging, scrounging, shortchanging, splurging, staging, surging, trudging, unchanging, urging, verging, waging. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: aiming, gaming. | |
-2 letters: aging, animi, gamin. | |
-3 letters: agin, amin, gain, gang, giga, inia, magi, main, migg, mina, mini. | |
-4 letters: aim, ain, ami, ani, gag, gam, gan, gig, gin, mag, man, mig, nag, nam, nim. | |
-5 letters: ag, ai, am, an, in, ma, mi, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-g-i-i-m-n" | |
+1 letter: imagings. | |
+2 letters: gigantism, gimbaling, grimacing, imagining, magicking, maligning, margining, migrating, mispaging, reimaging. | |
+3 letters: almsgiving, diagraming, emigrating, fumigating, geminating, gigantisms, gimballing, magnifying, misgauging, misgrading, mitigating. | |
+4 letters: almsgivings, campaigning, diagramming, dogmatizing, germanizing, germinating, glamorising, glamorizing, immigrating, magnetising, magnetizing, malingering, marginating, misaligning, mischarging, misgrafting, mismanaging, reimagining, scrimmaging, thingamajig, thingumajig. | |
+5 letters: antigambling, glamourizing, gormandising, gormandizing, greenmailing, hamstringing, impregnating, legitimating, mispackaging, pilgrimaging, polygamizing, stigmatizing, thingamajigs, thingumajigs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 61 67 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .- --. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m a g i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0061 0067 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43796773758073 |
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