icon vs reflection

reflection vs icon

icon and reflection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
icon	Yes	No	No	No
reflection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, reflection is a hyponym of icon; that is, reflection is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than icon:

icon: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
reflection: the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material)

Other hyponyms of icon include bitmap, electronic image, chiaroscuro, collage, montage, foil, transparency, computer graphic, graphic, iconography, inset, likeness, semblance, cyclorama, diorama, panorama, reflexion, CAT scan, scan, echogram, sonogram, fitspo.

icon (noun)	reflection (noun)
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface	the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material)
a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church	the ability to reflect beams or rays
(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	a likeness in which left and right are reversed
	a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
	a remark expressing careful consideration
	expression without words
	the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface
	(mathematics) a transformation in which the direction of one axis is reversed

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