<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Hinduism: the descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form or some manifest shape; the incarnation of a god.</li><li>an embodiment or personification, as of a principle, attitude, or view of life: Her complete loss of confidence was particularly unsettling, because generally she is the very avatar of hope.</li><li>Digital Technology: a static or moving image or other graphic representation that acts as a proxy for a person or is associated with a specific digital account or identity, as on the internet: My friend always chooses warriors as his video game avatars. Now that spring's here I've switched my Instagram avatar from a stack of books to a robin's egg.</li><li>a mouse that is implanted with cells or tissue freshly extracted from a human being, as to test drug therapies for an individual patient or to study a disease process: Researchers transplanted samples of the patient’s tumor into specially bred avatars.</li><li>(in science fiction) a hybrid creature, composed of human and alien DNA and remotely controlled by the mind of a genetically matched human being.</li></ul>