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.
