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Icon Meaning & Definition
Icon Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Icon?

[n] a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
[n] a visual representation of an object or scene or person 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"
[n] (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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Icon: ikon | image

Related Terms | Find terms related to Icon: abstract | abstraction | Agnus Dei | altarpiece | ark | asperger | asperges | aspergillum | bambino | beadroll | beads | block print | candle | censer | certified copy | chaplet | ciborium | collage | color print | companion | copy | counterfeit | cross | crucifix | cruet | cyclorama | daub | dead ringer | diptych | double | duplicate | ectype | effigy | engraving | eucharistial | exact likeness | fair copy | faithful copy | fake | fellow | forgery | fresco | glosseme | holy cross | Holy Grail | holy water | holy-water sprinkler | Host | idol | illumination | illustration | image | imitation | incensory | lexeme | lexical form | likeness | living image | living picture | match | mate | matzo | menorah | mezuzah | mikvah | miniature | mirroring | model | monstrance | montage | morpheme | mosaic | mural | osculatory | ostensorium | panorama | paschal candle | pasticcio | pastiche | pax | phony | photograph | phrase | phylacteries | picture | Pieta | portrait | prayer shawl | prayer wheel | print | pyx | reflection | relics | representation | reproduction | resemblance | rood | rosary | rubbing | sacramental | sacred relics | sacring bell | Sanctus bell | Sangraal | semasiological unit | semblance | sememe | shadow | shofar | sign | signifiant | significant | similitude | simulacrum | spit and image | spitting image | stained glass window | stencil | still life | sukkah | symbol | tabernacle | tableau | tallith | tapestry | term | thurible | token | trace | tracing | triptych | twin | type | urceole | veronica | very image | very picture | vigil light | votive candle | wall painting | word

See Also | bitmap | chiaroscuro | cyclorama | diorama | drawing | electronic image | exposure | foil | graphical user interface | GUI | inset | likeness | painting | panorama | photo | photograph | pic | picture | reflection | reflexion | representation | semblance | sonogram | symbol | transparency

Icon In Webster's Dictionary

\I"con\ ([imac]"k[o^]n), n. [L., fr. Gr. e'ikw`n.] An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait. Netherlands whose names and icons are published. --Hakewill.
\I"con\, n. (Gr. Ch.) A sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a saint, or a martyr, and having the same function as an image of such a person in the Latin Church.

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