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Icon   /ˈaɪkɑn/   Listen
Icon

noun
(Also spelled ikon)
1.
(computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface.
2.
A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.  Synonyms: ikon, image, picture.  "A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
3.
A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church.  Synonym: ikon.



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"Icon" Quotes from Famous Books



... ecclesiastical organizations which have never yet been able to utter the truth, because they have had to speak to the poor according to their ignorance and credulity, and to the rich according to their power. When I read that the icon of the Russian peasant is a religious force that will prevail over the materialism of Helmholtz and Haeckel, I have to contain myself as best I can in the face of an assumption by a modern educated European which implies that the Irish peasants who tied scraps of rag to the trees ...
— New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 - From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index • Various


Words linked to "Icon" :   picture, montage, reflection, iconography, GUI, sonogram, foil, representation, cyclorama, panorama, computer graphic, graphical user interface, diorama, chiaroscuro, graphic, computer science, reflexion, collage, transparency, likeness, bitmap, symbol, CAT scan, computing, scan, echogram, semblance, electronic image, inset, painting


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