Icon (disambiguation)

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An icon, from the Greek for image, is a religious painting in the tradition of Eastern Christianity.

Icon may also refer to:

Organizations

Literature and printed media

  • Icon (novel), a 1997 fiction novel by Frederick Forsyth
  • iCon: Steve Jobs, a 2005 biography of Steve Jobs by Jeffrey Young
  • Icon (magazine), a fashion and celebrity magazine
  • Icon (comics), a Milestone/DC comic book superhero
  • Icon Comics, a Marvel comics imprint
  • Icon Group International, a publisher of automatically generated books compiled from Internet sources
    • Icon Health Publications, an imprint of Icon Group International
  • Icon, a novel by Bodie and Brock Thoene
  • Icons: Creativity with Camera and Computer, an illustrated book by photographer Douglas Kirkland

Film and television

  • Icon (film), a 2005 thriller film
  • "Icon" (Stargate SG-1), a 2004 television episode of Stargate SG-1
  • Icons (TV series), an American documentary TV show

Music

Computers

Science fiction conventions

Symbolism

  • Digital on-screen graphic, a logo or icon displayed on screen
  • Iconography, the content of images, and the study of that subject
  • Iconicity, in linguistics
  • Pictogram, conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object
  • Computer icon, a pictogram used in a graphical user interface
  • Icon, a religious painting in the tradition of Eastern Christianity
  • Widely recognized symbols:
    • Secular icon, an image of a person or thing used for other than religious purpose
    • Cultural icon, a visual identity that is associated with cultural significance to a cultural group
    • Gay icon, an LGBT cultural icon

Other uses

See also

  • Icahn (disambiguation)
  • Ikon (disambiguation)
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