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 icon /ˈaɪˌkɑn/
 圖標像標,聖像,畫像,肖像,偶像

 icon
 圖像; 圖符

 icon
 圖像

 i·con n. [Also spelled ikon.]
 1. An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.
    Netherlands whose names and icons are published.   --Hakewill.
 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.
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 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]