icon | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: ikon, image, picture |
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(noun) a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church | Synonyms: ikon |
(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 | - |
iconoclasm | (noun) the orientation of an iconoclast | - |
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iconoclast | (noun) someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions | - |
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(noun) a destroyer of images used in religious worship | Synonyms: image breaker |
iconography | (noun) the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject | - |
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iconolatry | (noun) the worship of sacred images | - |
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iconology | (noun) the branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms) | - |
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iconoscope | (noun) the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin | - |
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