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Meaning of "virtual image" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VIRTUAL IMAGE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VIRTUAL IMAGE

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Virtual image is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VIRTUAL IMAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Virtual image

In optics, a virtual image is an image formed when the outgoing rays from a point on an object always diverge. The image appears to be located at the point of apparent divergence. Because the rays never really converge, a virtual image cannot be projected onto a screen. In diagrams of optical systems, virtual rays are conventionally represented by dotted lines. Virtual images are located by tracing the real rays that emerge from an optical device backward to a perceived point of origin. In contrast, a real image is one that is formed when the outgoing rays from a point converge at real location. Real images can be projected onto diffuse reflecting screen, but a screen is not necessary for the image to form. ▪ A plane mirror forms a virtual image positioned behind the mirror. Although the rays of light seem to come from behind the mirror, light from the source only exists in front of the mirror. The image exists in a space that is not real in a sense. The image in a plane mirror is not magnified and appears to be as far behind the mirror as the object is in front of the mirror.

Definition of virtual image in the English dictionary

The definition of virtual image in the dictionary is an optical image formed by the apparent divergence of rays from a point, rather than their actual divergence from a point.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VIRTUAL IMAGE

virtu
virtual
virtual human
virtual memory
virtual reality
virtual storage
virtualise
virtualism
virtualist
virtuality
virtualize
virtually
virtue
virtueless
virtues
virtuosa
virtuose
virtuosi
virtuosic
virtuosity

WORDS THAT END LIKE VIRTUAL IMAGE

afterimage
archimage
body image
brand image
corporate image
damage
ghost image
graven image
hypnagogic image
image
latent image
microimage
mirror image
nonimage
pilgrimage
primage
reimage
self-image
spit and image
spitting image
subliminal image

Synonyms and antonyms of virtual image in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «virtual image» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VIRTUAL IMAGE

Find out the translation of virtual image to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of virtual image from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «virtual image» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

虚像
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

imagen virtual
570 millions of speakers

English

virtual image
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आभासी छवि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صورة افتراضية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

виртуальный образ
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

imagem virtual
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভার্চুয়াল ইমেজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

image virtuelle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Imej maya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

virtuellen Bild
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

仮想イメージ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가상 이미지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Virtual gambar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hình ảnh ảo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மெய்நிகர் படம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्हर्च्युअल प्रतिमा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sanal görüntü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

immagine virtuale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wirtualny obraz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

віртуальний образ
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

imagine virtuală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εικονική εικόνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

virtuele beeld
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

virtuell bild
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

virtuelt bilde
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of virtual image

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VIRTUAL IMAGE»

The term «virtual image» is regularly used and occupies the 77.239 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VIRTUAL IMAGE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about virtual image

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VIRTUAL IMAGE»

Discover the use of virtual image in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to virtual image and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion
An overview of the art historical antecedents to virtual reality and the impact of virtual reality on contemporary conceptions of art.
Oliver Grau, 2003
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The World of Physics
Light rays and reflection Figure 1 .8 Finding the position of the image formed by a plane mirror I virtual image broken lines are virtual rays eye sheet of paper real rays Measurements from this experiment show that: a) OM = IM. The object and ...
John Avison, 1989
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Creating Smart Virtual Appliances with IBM Image ...
You can use an existing image from the Image Construction and Composition Tool as a template to create another image. You can select a virtual image as the template. It creates a virtual image with the same bundles as the template does.
Greg Hurlebaus, Rashed Ferdous, John Jacobson, 2013
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Time and the Image
Deleuze's argument runs as follows: in the cinema, the actual image is shadowed by its double - the virtual image: 'the actual image itself has a virtual image which corresponds to it like a double or a reflection'.39 Earlier cinema had attempted ...
Carolyn Bailey Gill, 2000
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Virtualization with IBM Workload Deployer: Designing and ...
Figure 10-74 shows the process for extending and updating a virtual image. 5. Updated virtual image can be redeployed 4. Capture virtual system 3. Apply maintenance 2. Deploy 1. Clone virtual image virtual image to the cloud Stand alone ...
Carla Sadtler, Deni Lukmanul Hakim, Alexander Hay, 2011
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Image Modeling of the Human Eye
This point lies on a virtual plane where the rest of the virtual image also appears to exist. Whereas physical light rays travel from left to right through the lens to form a real image, virtual rays travel from right to left from the lens to form the virtual ...
Rajendra Acharya U, Jasjit S. Suri, 2008
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VSMM 2000: 6th International Conference on Virtual Systems ...
The relation of occlusion between the real image and the virtual image is essentially different. The first one, when a real image is on the point of view of the observation person more than the virtual image, in other words, it is an expression to ...
Hal Thwaites, 2000
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The Telescope: Its History, Technology, and Future
If we move the secondary a little closer to the primary, the direction of the rays will change dramatically, resulting in a virtual image, as shown in Figure 3.3. A virtual image is one which can be seen, but cannot be projected onto a screen - we ...
Geoff Andersen, 2007
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WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance and PowerVM
This process starts a mksysb, which creates a new virtual image that will be transferred to the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance. 4. Optional: After capturing the modified image, permanently lock the virtual image to make it read-only to prevent ...
Shivaji D Bhosale, Martin Cernicky, Paul Reynolds, 2010
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Virtual Environments and Advanced Interface Design
__-___ Figure 6-29 Effect of focal length and image source (display) position on virtual image distance from the eye. The horizontal axis is the distance from the focal point of the lens to the display surface (i.e., (f—d) from equation (21)).
Woodrow Barfield, Thomas A. Furness, 1995

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VIRTUAL IMAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term virtual image is used in the context of the following news items.
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The state of virtual reality
It's basically a really small high-definition TV that tracks your head movement and changes the image accordingly. The virtual image is rendered from a computer ... «AMERICAblog, Jun 15»
2
Lenovo teases smartwatch, virtual keyboard and smart shoes
Lenovo's Magic View could turn your smartphone into a virtual PC. ... The watch uses optical reflection to create the virtual image, which lets users read a map, ... «CNET, May 15»
3
Lenovo introduces Magic View, the first smartwatch with a second …
Lenovo explained that the second screen removes the physical limitations of the main screen by using optical reflections to produce a virtual image 20 times ... «TechRadar, May 15»
4
Oculus Rift Is Coming, And Facebook Wants It To Be Your New Reality
Feed a slightly different image into each eye, and it will gladly decide you are seeing depth and motion. It will gladly process virtual images as real, giving you a ... «ReadWrite, Mar 15»
5
Microsoft once patented a virtual image projector headset
The patent proposes to solve the problem of the short focal length a helmet offers with a virtual image projector. Microsoft's idea “comprises a laser configured to ... «VG247, Mar 12»
6
Monkey brains 'feel' virtual objects
The monkeys were trained to use only their brain to explore virtual objects on a computer screen by moving a virtual image of an arm. Electrodes in the motor ... «Nature.com, Oct 11»

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