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pictogram

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(text)pictogram - (Or "pictograph") A symbol which is a picture that represents an object or concept, e.g. a picture of an envelope used to represent an e-mail message.

Pictograms are common in everyday life, e.g. signs in public places or roads, whereas the term "icon" is specific to interfaces on computers or other electronic devices.

Compare: ideogram.


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The storyline has still been kept under wraps, but it is believed to focus on freemasonry, with the lost symbol of the title a reference to a ciphered pictogram in an ancient book called The Key of Solomon.
In addition, he says, all of them are built up from fewer than 300 elements or pictograms, so someone who knows those can figure out pretty easily what all but the most obscure mean.
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