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A toothed wheel, marking a control that opens settings or preferences.
Also known as: Gear icon, Cog, Toothed wheel
A cogwheel marks settings. The metaphor is mechanical adjustment rather than anything a computer does, and it has become conventional enough that the picture's original sense is no longer needed to read it.
Marks a control that opens a settings, preferences or configuration screen.
Contexts: Software
Borrows a mechanical metaphor that describes nothing a computer actually does, and is read by convention rather than by resemblance — one of the clearest cases of an interface icon whose meaning is entirely learned.
Contexts: Software
A circle with a ring of evenly spaced rectangular teeth around its rim and a smaller open circle at its centre.