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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  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 
  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  picture  painted  in  oil  on  a  small 
  wooden  panel;  venerated  in  the  Eastern  Church  [syn:  {ikon}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  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  {exception}s.  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-expression}s,  which  can  be  explicitly  resumed  at  any  time. 
 
  Version  8.8  by  Ralph  Griswold    includes 
  an  {interpreter},  a  compiler  (for  some  {platform}s)  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/)},  {MS-DOS  FTP 
  (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) 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  icon 
 
    (From  minature  religious  statues)  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. 
 
  (1995-03-07)




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