Thumbnail

n. fingernail of the thumb

n. miniaturized picture, small picture which represents a larger and more detailed picture (Computers); miniature mock-up, small prototype of a page or document (Printing)

adj. tiny, little, short

Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to make it easier to scan and recognize them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words. Visual search engines and image-organizing programs normally use them, as can some modern operating systems or desktop environments, such as Windows XP, KDE, and GNOME.
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Noun
1. the nail of the thumb
(hypernym) fingernail
(part-holonym) thumb, pollex

term for a very small image derived from larger ones - used in digital imagery as appetizer

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<file format, graphics> (From "thumbnail sketch") A file format used by Graphics Workshop for Microsoft Windows. Filename extension: ".thn".
[What's in the files?]
(1996-05-28)