Pictograph

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A picture that represents a word or an idea.

    "The Seleucid and Dendera Zodiacs are illustrations of the pictograph tradition from the 5th phase, showing the zodiac plus the four ‘parazodiacal’ animals (crow, serpent, eagle, and southern fish)."

  2. 2
    a graphic character used in picture writing wordnet
  3. 3
    A graphic character.
  4. 4
    A graph that represents numerical data using pictures.

Etymology

From Latin pictus + -o- + graph.

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