meaning of avatar

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.
3. avatar 1. 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. [Jargon File]

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