reflection vs icon

icon vs reflection

reflection and icon both are nouns.

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

As nouns, icon is a hypernym of reflection; that is, icon is a word with a broader meaning than reflection:

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

Other hypernyms of reflection include ikon, image, picture.

reflection (noun)	icon (noun)
the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material)	a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
the ability to reflect beams or rays	a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
a likeness in which left and right are reversed	(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 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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