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vectoriel, elle adj. MATH Relatif aux vecteurs. Espace vectoriel: structure algébrique particulière définie par deux lois de composition, lune additive, lautre multiplicative. Grandeur vectorielle, qui possède une valeur numérique, une direction et un sens.
image n. f. I. 1. Représentation dune personne, dune chose par la sculpture, le dessin, la photographie, etc. Figure faisant lobjet dun culte religieux. Images des saints.
2. Estampe, gravure coloriée. Loc. fig., fam. Un enfant sage comme une image, tranquille, calme. Images dÉpinal: images populaires coloriées produites à Épinal depuis le XIXe s. Fig. Cest une image dÉpinal, une banalité, un cliché naïfs.
II. 1. Représentation visuelle dun objet donnée par une surface réfléchissante. Regarder son image dans un miroir.
2. PHYS Représentation dun objet donnée par un système optique. Image réelle, formée par la convergence de rayons lumineux et qui peut être reçue par un écran. Image virtuelle, visible par lil, mais qui ne peut être reçue par un écran. Image dun point lumineux, qui correspond à un point objet.
3. INFORM Image de synthèse: image artificielle créée à partir de données numériques, visualisable sur écran.
4. MATH Dans une application, élément de lensemble darrivée correspondant à un élément de lensemble de départ.
III. Représentation dune réalité matérielle ou abstraite en termes danalogie, de similitude. 1. Ce qui évoque, reproduit qqch; ressemblance. Ce sommeil qui est limage de la mort.
2. Représentation sensible dune abstraction, dun objet invisible. Elle est la vivante image du bonheur.
3. Métaphore. Un style aux images audacieuses. Description, représentation. Son récit est limage parfaite de ce que nous avons vécu.
4. Image de marque: ensemble des signes par lesquels une institution, une entreprise, une personne manifeste avantageusement sa spécificité, ses qualités auprès du public, dans un souci de notoriété. Soigner son image de marque.
IV. 1. Représentation mentale dune perception antérieure en labsence de lobjet perçu.
2. Représentation mentale dune chose. Limage du péril.
art
1 [U] the making of objects, images, music, etc. that are beautiful or that express feelings:
Can television and pop music really be considered art?
I enjoyed the ballet, but it wasn't really great art.
2 [U] the activity of painting, drawing and making sculpture:
Art and English were my best subjects at school.
an art teacher
3 [U] paintings, drawings and sculptures:
The gallery has an excellent collection of modern art.
an exhibition of Native American art
Peggy Guggenheim was one of the twentieth century's great art collectors.
The Frick is an art gallery in New York.
4 [C] an activity through which people express particular ideas:
Drama is an art that is traditionally performed in a theatre.
Do you regard film as entertainment or as an art?
She is doing a course in the performing arts.
5 [C] a skill or special ability:
the art of conversation
Getting him to go out is quite an art (= needs special skill).
artist
1 someone who paints, draws or makes sculptures:
Monet is one of my favourite artists.
Compare artiste.
2 someone who creates things with great skill and imagination:
He described her as one of the greatest film artists of the 20th century.
artistic
1 [before noun] relating to art:
the artistic director of the theatre
artistic endeavours
a work of artistic merit
2 able to create or enjoy art:
His friends are all artistic - they're painters, musicians and writers.
3 skilfully and attractively made:
That's a very artistic flower arrangement you have there.
artistically artistry
great skill in creating or performing something, such as in writing, music, sport, etc:
You have to admire the artistry of her novels.
the making or showing or performance of painting, acting, dancing and music:
More government money is needed for the arts.
public interest in the arts
See also arts.
arty
adjective INFORMAL USUALLY DISAPPROVING
being or wishing to seem very interested in everything connected with art and artists:
She hangs out with a lot of arty types.
contemporaneous -
happening or existing at the same period of time:
The two events were more or less contemporaneous, with only months between them.
Contemporaneously
contemporary (OF SAME PERIOD)
belonging to the same or a stated period in the past:
Almost all of the contemporary accounts of the event have been lost.
Most of the writers he was contemporary with were interested in the same subjects.
contemporary
1 someone living during the same period as someone else:
Was he a contemporary of Shakespeare's?
2 a person who is of the same age as you:
She didn't mix with her contemporaries, prefering the company of older people.