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Icon

noun

(Also spelled ikon)

(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.

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"

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

... are you all? [Crosses himself before the icon] Here we are, damn you, just in time for tea. We went to church, service was done; we went to dine, all eaten and gone; to the pub, we went in, just time to begin. Ha, ha, ha! You give us some tea and we'll give you ...

— The Cause of it All • Leo Tolstoy

... which he had taken an antipathy, principally High Tory and Benthamite, crucified, impaled through their covers, and suspended in all sorts of torturing attitudes. Among them, right over the table, figured a copy of Icon Basilike dressed up in a paper shirt, all drawn over with figures of flames and devils, and surmounted by a peaked paper cap, like a victim at an auto-da-fe. And in the midst of all this chaos grinned from the chimney-piece, among pipes and pens, pinches of salt and scraps of butter, a tall cast ...

— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al

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