March 20, 2010

icon

Last modified: Sunday, September 01, 1996 

A small picture that represents an object or program. Icons are very useful in applications that use windows, because with the click of a mouse button you can shrink an entire window into a small icon. (This is sometimes called minimizing.) To redisplay the window, you merely move the pointer to the icon and click (or double click) a mouse button. (This is sometimes called restoring or maximizing)

Icons are a principal feature of graphical user interfaces.

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Web icon and graphics archive
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Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)

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