The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word IMAGE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result IMAGE
- It may get endless representation
- Picture firm haggle regularly
- Vision of latter half of hadj?
- Picture that is on outside of magazine
- I’m a good source of Expressionist picture
- Picture that is enthralling the old lady, first in guidebook
- Visual representation that is covering magazine
- Picture latter half of a trip to Santiago?
- Picture every second of film era
- Picture of one wizard
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What does IMAGE mean?
IMAGE noun- An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- A statue or idol.
- A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others.
- Something mapped to by a function.
- The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
- A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- Show; appearance; cast.
- To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
- To reflect, mirror.
- To create an image of.
- To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.