Noun

(en noun)

(uncountable) An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.

(UK) a 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker.

(slang) A modification to an object, computer game, etc., typically for the purpose of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.

(Internet) A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.

(computing, informal) A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).

* 1992 , "Jordan K. Hubbard", How to convert Amiga mods to Arch?'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn )

I'd like to convert some of the arch(SIC) mods back into Amiga mods since I don't have the original Amiga versions.

* 2003 , Rene T. A. Lysloff, Leslie C. Gay, Jr., Music and Technoculture (page 38)

These mods , while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances.

(rock climbing) A moderately difficult route.

Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.

Noun

(en noun)

An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.

The Bible forbids the worship of graven images .

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03

, author=, title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images , the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}

A mental picture of something not real or not present.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}

(computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (see disk image, executable image and image copy)

Most game console emulators do not come with any ROM images for copyright reasons.

A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.

(mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.

The number 6 is the image of 3 under ''f'' that is defined as f(x) = 2*x.

(mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.

The image of this step function is the set of integers.

(obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.

* Dryden

The face of things a frightful image bears.