Icon
WordNet
noun
(1) A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
(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"
(3) (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
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From icon < (eikōn) "likeness, image, portrait". Eastern Orthodox Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded in 1982.
Noun
- An image, picture, or other representation.
- A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
- A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
- That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.
- A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
- : A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also symbol and index.
Related terms
- iconic, iconoclastic, iconify
- iconoclasm, iconoclast,
- iconstasis, iconography
Etymology
From (eikōn) "likeness, image, portrait".
Noun
- an image
- (later Latin): icon (religious painting)