Icon (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- An icon (from Greek εικων, eikon, "image") is an artistic visual representation or symbol of anything considered holy and divine.
- The word icon in the general sense is used to mean symbol -- i.e. a name, face, or picture that is readily recognized by most people to represent some well-known entities or attributes. Note that most of the many notational symbols from math and science are not icons.
- In computer jargon, an icon is a tiny, clickable picture used in graphical user interfaces to represent a program, file, user, etc
- Icon is also a programming language.
- The ICON was a computer developed for the Ontario school system.
- ICON is also the title of the annual journal of the International Society for the History of Technology, ICHOTEC; and the name of the annual Iowa Science Fiction Convention.
- Iconicity is a concept of linguistics.
- Icon is the title of a book by Frederick Forsyth.
- Icon is a comic book and its title character published by Milestone Media
