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UK/ˈaɪ.kɒn/ US/ˈaɪ.kən/ fairly common informal

noun

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”

Origin

From Latin īcōn, from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”). Eastern Orthodox Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded in 1982.

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