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Eikon

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Eikon
    an ikon.
  2. Eikon
    An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) eikon
    A likeness; an image; an effigy; particularly, one of the “holy images” of the Eastern Church. Also written icon.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Eikon
    ī′kon Same as Icon.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary NL., fr. Gr. e'ikw`n

Usage in the news

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Usage in scientific papers

As a limiting case, one recovers the well-known eikonal approximation (see Sect.
Paraxial propagation of a quantum charge in a random magnetic field

This limit corresponds to the well-known eikonal approximation .
Paraxial propagation of a quantum charge in a random magnetic field

The eikonal solution to the magnetic scattering problem.
Paraxial propagation of a quantum charge in a random magnetic field

Qk (x, t) and ˜Qk (x, t) satisfy Eikonal-type equations .
Influence of gauge fluctuations on fermion pairing order parameter

This effective action in turn determines the scattering phase shift of the ob jects in the eikonal approximation.
M(atrix) Theory: Matrix Quantum Mechanics as a Fundamental Theory

Usage in literature

Once she put up a candle before the eikon and prayed that Styopa might pass. "Reminiscences of Tolstoy" by Ilya Tolstoy

Nothing is more characteristic in the "Eikon" than its indirectness. "Life of John Milton" by Richard Garnett

They celebrated it by attacking the houses of the rich, and committed so many excesses that the priests made a procession with the eikons. "The Story of Russia" by R. Van Bergen

Putting up a copy of 'Eikon Basilike,' there were but few bidders, and those very low in their biddings. "The Book-Hunter in London" by William Roberts

An eikon by the chimneypiece can take me to Russia with its great forests of birch and its white, domed churches. "The Trembling of a Leaf" by William Somerset Maugham

But another storm darkened the sky, when Leo V., the Armenian, in 813, renewed the war against eikons. "Byzantine Churches in Constantinople" by Alexander Van Millingen

A photograph of a man of twenty hangs by the eikons. "Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays" by Various