imaging
noun
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.
imagings
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pluralof imaging.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
So he felt as, late that night, he leant upon his window sill and stared out at the darkness that was the background for his imagings of what was to come.
From Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
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
He was beginning to be with her constantly - to come to her with all his doings, and his imagings, and his hopes.
From Winding Paths by Gertrude Page
