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1. <chat, virtual reality> An image representing a user in a multi-user virtual reality (or VR-like, in the case of Palace) space.
2. (CMU, Tektronix) root, superuser. There are quite a few Unix computers on which the name of the superuser account is "avatar" rather than "root". This quirk was originated by a CMU hacker who disliked the term "superuser", and was propagated through an ex-CMU hacker at Tektronix.
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| avatar | education dictionary |
<learning technology> A small digital image used within electronic learning environments to represent a person.
In e-learning avatars usually represent the learners. The term comes from a Sanskrit word meaning an incarnation in human form.
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1. The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.
2. Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.
Origin: Skr. Avatara descent; ava from + root t to cross, pass over.
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