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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 Ludmilla in German with uncle, Emil and Mary with the aunts; and round this group gathered the young folk, clamouring to hear all about the wreck, and the rescue, and the homeward voyage. It was a very different story from the written one; and as they listened to Emil's graphic words, with Mary's soft voice breaking in now and then to add some fact that brought out the courage, patience, and self-sacrifice he so lightly touched upon, it became a solemn and pathetic thing to see and hear these happy creatures tell of ...
— Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott

... usual number of questions to answer, which he did in the following succinct and graphic manner, a reply that we hope will prove as satisfactory to the reader, as it was made to be, perforce, satisfactory to the ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... at this period of his life? A graphic letter just received enables me to answer this question. "When I first met him, I looked on him with the deepest interest, and realized the charm that everyone felt. He had just gone up to Oxford, and ...
— Prime Ministers and Some Others - A Book of Reminiscences • George W. E. Russell

... approach of day came the signal from the flagship to prepare for action. In the gray dawn the Spanish fleet could be seen about two miles distant, at such a point that their fire could be re-enforced by the guns of the forts. A most graphic story of the action that followed, as seen from the view-point of "the man behind the gun," whom Captain Mahan eulogizes, is told by Chief Gunner Evans of the "Boston," from whose narrative I quote the ...
— The Naval History of the United States - Volume 2 (of 2) • Willis J. Abbot

... give a clear and graphic description of the ceremonies to be observed at the birth and the investiture of children, at the betrothal of children, at marriages and at funerals, and he finally dismisses some of the distinguishing ...
— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller


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