What is an avatar. What does the word really mean.
Answer in 10 words or less please.
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What is an avatar. What does the word really mean.
Answer in 10 words or less please.
The meaning of Avatar
Longman's dictionary defines avatar as follows:
Avatar: (n)
1) Incarnation of Vishnu, a Hindu deity;
2) An embodiment of a concept or philosophy
The Oxford dictionary tells us that avatar can mean:
1) Descent of a deity to earth in an incarnate form (i.e., as in "the fifth avatar appeared as a dwarf")
2) A manifestation or presentation to the world (i.e., the avatar of mathematics)
3) A display
4) A phase
Webster's Dictionary also calls an avatar:
1) A manifestation or embodiment of a person, concept or philosophy.
2) A variant phase or version of a continuing basic entity.
So in 10 words it should be something like this:
Small picture that has nothing to do with a forum.
:P :P
AVATAR
An artificial representation of somebody/thing/deity.
also...
A piccy used by a person who wants to appear more interesting than they actually ARE. ;)