Icon - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Icon : (noun)
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]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Icon : \I"con\, n. (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.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Icon : \I"con\ ([imac]"k[o^]n), n. [L., fr. Gr. e'ikw`n.] An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

Netherlands whose names and icons are published. --Hakewill.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Icon :

A descendant of SNOBOL4 with Pascal-like syntax, produced by Griswold in the 1970's. Icon is a general-purpose language with special features for string scanning. It has dynamic types: records, sets, lists, strings, tables. If has some object oriented features but no modules or exceptions. It has a primitive Unix interface.

The central theme of Icon is the generator: when an expression is evaluated it may be suspended and later resumed, producing a result sequence of values until it fails. Resumption takes place implicitly in two contexts: iteration which is syntactically loop-like ('every-do'), and goal-directed evaluation in which a conditional expression automatically attempts to produce at least one result. Expressions that fail are used in lieu of Booleans. Data backtracking is supported by a reversible assignment. Icon also has co-expressions, which can be explicitly resumed at any time.

Version 8.8 by Ralph Griswold includes an interpreter, a compiler (for some platforms) and a library (v8.8). Icon has been ported to Amiga, Atari, CMS, Macintosh, Macintosh/MPW, MS-DOS, MVS, OS/2, Unix, VMS, Acorn.

See also Ibpag2.

ftp://cs.arizona.edu/icon/)">(ftp://cs.arizona.edu/icon/), MS-DOS FTP ftp://bellcore.com_norman/iconexe.zip)">(ftp://bellcore.com norman/iconexe.zip).

Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.icon.

E-mail: , .

Mailing list: icon-group@arizona.edu.

["The Icon Programmming Language", Ralph E. Griswold and Madge T. Griswold, Prentice Hall, seond edition, 1990].

["The Implementation of the Icon Programmming Language", Ralph E. Griswold and Madge T. Griswold, Princeton University Press 1986].

(1992-08-21)

Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:

Icon :

A small picture intended to represent something (a file, directory, or action) in a graphical user interface. When an icon is clicked on, some action is performed such as opening a directory or aborting a file transfer.

Icons are usually stored as bitmap images. Microsoft Windows uses a special bitmap format with file name extension ".ico" as well as embedding icons in executable (".exe") and Dynamically Linked Library (DLL) files.

The term originates from Alan Kay's theory for designing interfaces which was primarily based on the work of Jerome Bruner. Bruner's second developmental stage, iconic, uses a system of representation that depends on visual or other sensory organization and upon the use of summarising images.

IEEE publication http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/cht_papers/Barnes.pdf)">(http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/cht_papers/Barnes.pdf).

[What MS tool can create .ico files?]

(2003-08-01)

Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:

Example Usage of Icon
	JoBrosPone: http://twitpic.com/tq7az - Icon made for: @TheJBandJB hope you like it (:
	fafner: @andyeb It's sadly only a very light snow fall. btw did you see the new mobileme Icon? Looks pretty similar to your Icon.
	kzisdzl: おもしろい RT @zaaccck: これはすごい。RT @3THREE_design: スバラしい。RT @3Icon: チェックボックスで水滴アニメーション。面白いことを考える人がいるんですね。 http://bit.ly/7mb1dU

Icon - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Example Usage of Icon