re-imagingn.
/ˌriːˈɪmᵻdʒɪŋ/, U.S. /riˈɪmɪdʒɪŋ/ 1. The action or process of forming a new or different mental or pictorial image. In later use chiefly: the reforming or altering of the image of a person, company, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] > act of imagining > again
reproduction1766
revisioning1905
re-imaging1910
1910 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 7 275 The relative value of ‘jamming in’ and recalling differs with individuals, those having strong ‘inner-speech’ tendencies being more helped by recall than those who depend on reimaging.
1915 ‘A. E.’ Imaginations & Reveries 129 There is a sweetness..in the cunning re-imaging of the beauty we see.
1987 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 11 May b1 It might take the best of Madison Avenue to develop a national ad campaign targeted at reimaging and rethinking.
1997 A. Barnett This Time ix. 299 The re-imaging of Britain..is linked to the celebration of the millennium.
2. Optics. attributive. Designating a lens or other optical system which inverts, magnifies, or otherwise manipulates the initial image formed by a telescope, lens, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > other lenses
concave1632
globe1653
meniscus1693
hemispherule1696
convex1705
omphaloptic1728
omphalopter1738
crown lens1764
achromatic1785
condenser1798
meniscus lens1820
Fresnel lens1835
bull's-eye1839
Stanhope lens1850
spot lens1860
amplifier1866
achromat1873
projectora1884
aplanat1890
triplet condenser1892
Aldis lens1902
monocentric1922
Schmidt correcting plate1934
coated lens1948
Panavision1955
Schmidt correcting lens1961
re-imaging1962
1962 Encycl. Dict. Physics V. 63 The erecting eyepiece, sometimes called a terrestrial eyepiece, contains an auxiliary reimaging system of one or two positive lenses which inverts the primary image before it reaches the eyepiece.
1974 Sci. News 106 138/2 RTAC is a reimaging device that can be mounted on an existing telescope and will work on the light reflected by it.
1992 L. Niven & S. Barnes Calif. Voodoo Game ii. 22 Alex adjusted his reimaging field, zooming in on one section of the fractured, inverted L shape.
1995 S. G. Lipson et al. Optical Physics (ed. 3) 473 A small object with fine detail would solve this problem, but the reimaging lens can not be put close enough to it in order to get a highly-magnified image.
3. Computing. The practice of re-imaging a hard drive; an instance of this.
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2002 C. V. Breakfield & R. E. Burkey Managing Syst. Migrations & Upgrades v. 168 A reimaging process had to be developed that captured the valuable data from the portable prior to the reimaging process and then restored it following the upgrade.
2003 C. T. Baumrucker et al. Cisco Security Professional's Guide to Secure Intrusion Detection Syst. iii. 103 After the re-imaging is complete login as root.
2007 J. Molina et al. in K.-H. Nam & G. Rhee Information Security & Cryptology 146 The strace logging capability was enabled at the beginning of the hour following a reimaging.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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