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Graphic   /grˈæfɪk/   Listen
adjective
Graphical, Graphic  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing; of or pertaining to graphics; as, graphic art work.
2.
Of or pertaining to the art of writing.
3.
Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines. "The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters."
4.
Having the faculty of clear, detailed, and impressive description; as, a graphic writer.
5.
Well delineated; clearly and vividly described; characterized by, clear, detailed, and impressive description; vivid; evoking lifelike images within the mind; as graphic details of the President's sexual misbehavior; a graphic description of the accident; graphic images of violence.
Synonyms: lifelike, pictorial, vivid.
6.
Hence: Describing nudity or sexual activity in explicit detail; as, a novel with graphic sex scenes.
7.
Relating to or presented by a graph (2); as, a graphic presentation of the data.
Synonyms: graphical.
Graphic algebra, a branch of algebra in which, the properties of equations are treated by the use of curves and straight lines.
Graphic arts, a name given to those fine arts which pertain to the representation on a fiat surface of natural objects; as distinguished from music, etc., and also from sculpture.
Graphic formula. (Chem.) See under Formula.
Graphic granite. See under Granite.
Graphic method, the method of scientific analysis or investigation, in which the relations or laws involved in tabular numbers are represented to the eye by means of curves or other figures; as the daily changes of weather by means of curves, the abscissas of which represent the hours of the day, and the ordinates the corresponding degrees of temperature.
Graphical statics (Math.), a branch of statics, in which the magnitude, direction, and position of forces are represented by straight lines. Graphic tellurium. See Sylvanite.






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"Graphic" Quotes from Famous Books



... and assented. I suggested that he might show me some. The young man looked positively alarmed. 'Oh,' he said, 'We haven't got any—not got any here.' I asked 'Where?' 'Oh, they're out you know. All round,' he explained wildly, with a graphic gesture in the direction of the sea and the sky. 'All out round. We've left them all round at places.' To this day I don't know what he meant, but I merely asked when they would quit these weird retreats. He said in an hour: in an hour I called again. Were ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward

... followed by women at that time included the classic languages and their literature, oratory, poetry, or the art of versifying, and music. Dilettanteism in the graphic and plastic arts of course followed, and the vast number of paintings and statues produced during the Renaissance inspired every cultivated woman in Italy with a ...
— Lucretia Borgia - According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day • Ferdinand Gregorovius

... the Loire endeared to me by Sevigne—for I never saw the glimmer of its Waters myself. If you were in England I should send you an account of a tour there, written by a Lady in 1833—written in the good old way of Ladies' writing, without any of the smartness, and not too much of the 'graphic' of later times. Did you look at Les Rochers, which, I have read, is not to be looked into by the ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) • Edward FitzGerald

... underneath which children are found, recommend that the great mystery of love and generation be explained to children in lectures, through comparisons and assimilations, mercilessly and in a well-nigh graphic manner. ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin

... immense increase of every-day correspondence has ruined handwriting and banished forever the art of composition. The short, modern, business-like letters of to-day will not bear comparison with the neat, voluminous letters full of graphic scenic descriptions, which our forefathers were wont to compile, and were worth keeping and rereading. Now, when similar correspondence is undertaken, it is dictated to a stenographer, copied on a typewriter, or printed, for few people will take the trouble to read manuscript composition of any ...
— Disputed Handwriting • Jerome B. Lavay


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