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thumb|Thumbnail images being used to show a sample of image files within a folder, on a computer operating system. A thumbnail is a reduced-size version of a picture or video, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words. In the age of digital images, visual search engines and image-organizing programs normally use thumbnails, as do most modern operating systems or desktop environments, such as Microsoft Windows, macOS, KDE (Linux) and GNOME (Linux). On web pages, they also avoid the need to download larger files unnece
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Within Vinony's link graph, thumbnail is referenced by 166 other articles, and connects out to Internet, YouTube and Linux.
Vinony files it under Computer graphics and Graphic design.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- image
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- Commons category
- Thumbnails (images)
- exact match
- schema.org/thumbnail
- different from
- Miniatura
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/video-thumbnails
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Implementation
- Etymology
- Dimensions
- See also
- References
thumb|Thumbnail images being used to show a sample of image files within a folder, on a computer operating system. A thumbnail is a reduced-size version of a picture or video, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words. In the age of digital images, visual search engines and image-organizing programs normally use thumbnails, as do most modern operating systems or desktop environments, such as Microsoft Windows, macOS, KDE (Linux) and GNOME (Linux). On web pages, they also avoid the need to download larger files unnecessarily.
==Implementation== Thumbnails are ideally implemented on web pages as separate, smaller copies of the original image, in part because one purpose of a thumbnail image on a web page is to reduce bandwidth and download time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “thumbnail” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.