icon

  n. sacred or monumental image, statue, painting, etc.; picture on computer monitor to represent command.

   ♦ iconic, a.

   ♦ iconism, n. worship of images.

   ♦ iconoclasm, n. image-breaking; attacking of established beliefs.

   ♦ iconoclast, n. person practising iconoclasm.

   ♦ iconography, n. representation in art or diagrams; description of representational works of art.

   ♦ iconolatry, n. image-worship.

   ♦ iconology, n. study of icons; symbolism.

   ♦ iconomachy, n. objection to worship of icons.

   ♦ iconomatic, a. pertaining to picture-writing in which characters represent names or phonetic values and not objects.

   ♦ iconometer, n. instrument finding distance or size of object by measuring its image; instrument for finding photographic focus; direct view- finder.

   ♦ iconoplast, n. image-maker.

   ♦ iconoscope, n. part of television camera where light is converted into electric waves.

   ♦ iconostasis, n. screen bearing icons, separating sanctuary from nave in

  Eastern churches.