icon (n.)

  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; they showed us the pictures of their wedding; a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them

    [ Syn: picture , image , ikon ]

  3. a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church

    [ Syn: ikon ]

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