Found 2 items, similar to icon.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: icon icon n 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; “they showed us the pictures of their wedding”; “a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them” [syn: picture, image, ikon] 3: a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church [syn: ikon]
English → English (gcide) Definition: icon icon \i"con\ ([imac]"k[o^]n), n. [Also spelled ikon.] [L., fr. Gr. e'ikw`n.] 1. An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait. [1913 Webster] Netherlands whose names and icons are published. --Hakewill. [1913 Webster] 2. (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. The term is used especially for a highly stylized and conventionalized representation of a holy person, rich in symbolism and used in devotional services in many of the eastern Orthodox churches, especially the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] 3. a symbol, especially a symbol whose form suggests its meaning or the object it represents. [PJC] 4. (Computers) a graphical symbol for a data object whose form suggests the nature or function of the object; especially, such a symbol as viewed on the computer screen. Note: In a graphical user interface, pointing to and clicking on an icon may cause any of several types of actions, such as opening a file or executing a program, depending on how the icon properties are defined. [PJC] 5. any object of uncritical devotion. [PJC] The former congresswoman and Vice-Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro is still an icon to many party members. --The New York Times, April 16, 1998 [PJC] 6. an outstanding example of something which has come to represent the class of things to which it belongs; a paragon; used of persons as well as objects. [PJC]