What is the meaning of icon?

noun

  • 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. (
  • A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.
    • usage: "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
  • A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church.
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