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Icon   /ˈaɪkɑn/   Listen
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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



... 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


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


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