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• present participle of image.

imaging

American  

[im-uh-jing] / ˈɪm ə dʒɪŋ /

noun

• imagings
  plural

1. Psychology. a technique in which one uses mental images to control bodily processes and thus ease pain or to succeed in some endeavor that one has visualized in advance.

2. Medicine/Medical. the use of computerized axial tomography, sonography, or other specialized techniques and instruments to obtain pictures of the interior of the body, especially those including soft tissues.

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imaging Scientific  

/ ĭm′ĭ-jĭng /

1. The creation of visual representations of objects, such as a body parts or celestial bodies, for the purpose of medical diagnosis or data collection, using any of a variety of usually computerized techniques. Within the field of medicine, important imaging technologies include compuertized axial tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasonography.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• imagings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of imaging

First recorded in 1660–70, for the earlier sense “imagination”; image + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

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imaging imagings

A suspicious spot can lead to repeat imaging, biopsies, significant expense, and most importantly, months of worry—only to turn out to be benign.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

Zoo staff decided Masaya needed more detailed imaging and transported her to Liverpool for a CT scan.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

Researchers also used advanced imaging methods to monitor changes in their bone density.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

Woodman, in Tuesday’s announcement, said the merger would help GoPro become a “leading American imaging and optical-solutions company, addressing important areas of national security related to cameras, optics and AI infrastructure.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

We line up outside the Hub by last name and proceed through the security check—full-body scanners and luggage imaging like at the airport, but with a ticket to nowhere.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

Brogan: All right, so you’re looking at all of these computerized imagings of brains and spinal cords I assume, as well?

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2017

The campus was impressive for what happened within its walls: chest crackings, organ transplants, molecular imagings, genetic probes, and virtually any other medical service known in the advanced world.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

What word so full of grace and tender imagings to any true man as that one word!

From Miracles of Our Lord by George MacDonald

Nothing is more tedious, yet nothing is more instructive, than the study of the formulated ideals, the imagings of what life might be or life ought to be, of poets or of systematic philosophers.

From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by J. A. (John Adam) Cramb

She would have faithfulness to facts, but no limitation of vision; she would have the imagings exact and legitimate, but she would give our moral and intellectual insights no narrow bounds.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by George Willis Cooke