1. While in India, we saw an avatar (human form of a Hindu god) of Vishnu.
2. She is regarded as an avatar (representative of a type of person, idea, or quality) of charity and concern for the poor.
3. In her computer, she chose a penguin as her personal avatar (image representing a particular person) in the chat room.
4. Etymology: from Sanskrit avatra, "descent (of a deity from heaven)", from ava, "down" + tarati, "he crosses".

Krishna is the eighth avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu the Preserver, whom many Hindus worship as God.

In computer activities, it is a virtual representation of a person or a person's interactions with others in a virtual environment, conveying a sense of someone's presence (known as telepresence) by providing the location (position and orientation) and identity.

Examples include the graphical human figure model, the talking head, and the real-time reproduction of a three-dimesional human image.