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Graphical   /grˈæfɪkəl/   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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"Graphical" Quotes from Famous Books



... no signature of Hannah Hathaway, nor of her mother, and only a questionable one of Mr. John Shakspeare, the poet's father,—there being two, in two very different hands,—both he and the publisher were of opinion that the graphical part of the volume would be justly censured as extremely incomplete, and that what we could give would only raise inextinguishable regret for that which we could not. On this ...
— Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare • Walter Savage Landor
... from Gibbon, but interspersed from other authorities. Miss Mitford's tragedy has since been represented with considerable success, and published. In the preface, we are told, that in addition to the splendid narrative of Gibbon, recourse has been had to "the still more graphical and interesting account of Rienzi's eventful career," contained in L'Abbe de Sade's Memoirs of Petrarque; and that, "as far as the female characters are concerned," the materials are entirely from ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 12, No. 338, Saturday, November 1, 1828. • Various
... followed a very vivid and graphic description of the sad fate of the pig and the locomotive. The wonder was how Ford should have failed to tell it before. No such failure would have been possible if his head and tongue had not been so wonderfully busy about so many other things ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. - Scribner's Illustrated • Various
... and thereupon she told the story of Nancy's Sunday kidnapping, and of what had happened at the picture show. Her graphic wording held ...
— The Torch Bearer - A Camp Fire Girls' Story • I. T. Thurston
... a wealth of material for interpreting the mental conditions of ancient peoples, but beside documentary evidence the anthropologist learns to use inscriptions of prehistoric times, the primitive graphic representations on tombs and monuments, and even the characteristics of crude implements like axes and arrow-heads. The layman finds it difficult at first to regard such relics as indications of the mental stature of the people who made and possessed them; but a little thought ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton


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