What is Avatar?
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An icon which represents a user in a virtual reality/Internet setting, currently attempted with varying success. The term is adopted from Neal Stephenson; another word used for the same concept is Rudy Rucker's term "tuxedo."
First used from an Internet perspective in 1992 in SNOW CRASH, by Neal Stephenson, in one of those self-fulfilling SF prophecies. Stephenson got the name from the Hindu concept of avatars, which are the personification of various deities or entities.
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1) A small picture beneath a persons username in posts on forums.
2) Some kind of incarnation of a god.
1)
user 's avatar is a piece of crap.
2) Fear the Avatar of Zeus!
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One who has power over the 4 elements of life. Water, Earth, Fire, Air/wind.
The avatar has many powers.
4.
A physical manifestation in human form of a Hindu Diety.
Ancient Hindu diety Vishnu was preserved by practicing an avatar.
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1. A cool (or not cool) pic that appears below your name on forum sites.
2. The personification of something infinite, usually a god.
1. He had a Boohbah avatar so I hired a hitman to kill him.
2. My friends say he's the Avatar of Apollo because he's so sexy.
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1) An incarnation of a diety or a supernatural being in the physical world.
2) A digital representation of a person who lives only through the internet.
1) The Kalki avatar of Sri Krishna is going to wreck havoc when he comes.
2) Any old yahoo! avatar
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an avatar or avatara is an incarnation of an immortal being or an ultimate supreme being (i.e. a god or goddess). avatars or avataras are said to descend to earth in times of great evil or unrightousness.
it is said that the avatar came over a thousand years ago to save earth.
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