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/ˈaɪkɑn/ Listen

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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... copies of the Gospels, and read aloud to a sacristan this passage and that, asking him to read them also, so that I might adjust my pronunciation to his. On one occasion, from a height near Government House, I watched, if I may so express myself, a celebrated icon in action—a jeweled portrait of the Madonna, said to have been painted by St. Luke. On the plain below was the broad bed of a river, dry from continued drought. Unanswered prayers for rain had for some time been frequent and at last this miraculous relic had been brought forth ...

— Memoirs of Life and Literature • W. H. Mallock

... supper of cold hash, and at nine the high striped feather-bed received their rotund little bodies in its soft embrace, and a calm, untroubled sleep soon descended upon their eyelids. Everything in the little house became hushed; the little lamp before the icon glowed and glimmered, the funny innocent little pair slept the sound sleep of the just, amidst the fragrant scent of musk and the ...

— Virgin Soil • Ivan S. Turgenev