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English noun: icon | |||
| 1. | icon (communication) (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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | symbol | ||
| Part meronym | graphical user interface, GUI | ||
| Domain category | computer science, computing | ||
| 2. | icon (artifact) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | ||
| Samples | They showed us the pictures of their wedding. A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them. | ||
| Synonyms | ikon, image, picture | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | representation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bitmap, CAT scan, chiaroscuro, collage, computer graphic, cyclorama, diorama, echogram, electronic image, foil, graphic, iconography, inset, likeness, montage, panorama, reflection, reflexion, scan, semblance, sonogram, transparency | ||
| 3. | icon (artifact) a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church | ||
| Synonyms | ikon | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | painting, picture | ||
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