icon

Words with a similar base: icon

'icon'

[icon.n.01] as in: (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

'icon'

[picture.n.01] as in: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

Examples:
they showed us the pictures of their wedding
a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them

'icon'

[icon.n.03] as in: a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church

Origins

					icon (English)
└── icon (Latin)
    └── εἰκών (Ancient Greek (to 1453))

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