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But decoding the pictograms could be a culturally and historically significant task.—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2025 Labels typically include warning pictograms and complex regulatory information in various formats.—Jeanette Rohr, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 America’s most popular airline routes (by Melvin Backman) SURPRISING DISCOVERIES
Fifty years ago this weekend, scientists radioed a distant cluster of stars a pictogram using binary code.—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 18 Nov. 2024 The Indus Valley people carved about 400 symbols into stone seals—some animal pictograms, others abstract shapes.—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pictogram
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Etymology
International Scientific Vocabulary picto- (from Latin pictus) + -gram
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