imaging has definitions from the fields of medicine,psychology
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[ noun ] (psychology) the ability to form mental images of things or events

Examples

"he could still hear her in his imagination"

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

For it had turned_out , by a further paradox of Cubism , that the means to an illusion of depth and plasticity had now become widely divergent from the means of representation or imaging .

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[ noun ] (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body

Synonyms

tomography

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