ICONIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does iconic mean? 

• ICONIC (adjective)
  The adjective ICONIC has 1 sense:

1. relating to or having the characteristics on an icon

  Familiarity information: ICONIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICONIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or having the characteristics on an icon

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

icon (a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church)

Derivation:

icon (a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church)

icon (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)

icon ((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)

 Context examples 

Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first pass over Jupiter's Great Red Spot in July 2017 indicate that this iconic feature penetrates well below the clouds.

(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)

Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades ago.

(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)

The most iconic examples are in Occator Crater, which hosts two prominent bright areas.

(Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity, NASA)

The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the most iconic feature of the solar system’s largest planetary inhabitant during its Monday (July 10) flyby.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

A crucial finding was that neural connections link the reniform bodies to centers called mushroom bodies, iconic structures of arthropod brains that are required for olfactory learning and memory.

(How mantis shrimp make sense of the world, National Science Foundation)

The research focused on one species of Darwin’s iconic finches - the small ground finch, Geospiza fuliginosa.

(A decade after the predators have gone, Galapagos Island finches are still being spooked, University of Cambridge)

Titanosaurian sauropods, the group that includes Rukwatitan, were herbivorous dinosaurs known for their iconic large body sizes, long necks and wide stance.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)

A study modeled fracture chain reactions and water amounts necessary to repeat a rare, epic collapse such as the 2002 shattering of the iconic shelf "Larsen B."

(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)

The MWR data indicates that Jupiter’s iconic belts and zones are mysterious, with the belt near the equator penetrating all the way down, while the belts and zones at other latitudes seem to evolve to other structures.

(First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission, NASA)

The spacecraft passed about 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometers) above the clouds of this iconic feature.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)