iconifyv.
/ʌɪˈkɒnᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /aɪˈkɑnəˌfaɪ/ Computing.
transitive. = iconize v. Additions.
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1986 M. Gancarz in Proc. USENIX Assoc. Summer Conf. 429 Current user interfaces for X..provide basic window management functions, such as..iconifying windows.
1995 Australian 14 Nov. (Brisbane ed.) 49/2 The user can pop-up or iconify windows.
2003 G. Fitzpatrick Locales Framework iv. 57 There are multiple mail icons, where mail is filtered into different folders.There are other tools that have been iconified as well.
Derivatives
iˈconified adj.
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1989 Byte Oct. 202/2 Clicking the mouse's left button..toggles the program's iconified/expanded state.
2002 ACM Trans. Programming Langs. & Systems (Nexis) Mar. 153 We model objects changing mutually exclusive classes (for example, opened window versus iconified window).
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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