Hypertext Webster Gateway: "graphic"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

-graph \-graph\ (-gr[.a]f) [From Gr. gra`fein to write. See
{Graphic}.] A suffix signifying something written, a writing;
also, a writer; as autograph, crystograph, telegraph,
photograph. Graphic \Graph"ic\ (gr[a^]f"[i^]k), Graphical
\Graph"ic*al\ (-[i^]*kal), a. [L. graphicus, Gr. grafiko`s, fr.
gra`fein to write; cf. F. graphique. See {Graft}.]
1. Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing.

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.
--Sir T.
Browne.

4. Well delineated; clearly and vividly described.

5. Having the faculty of, or characterized by, clear and
impressive description; vivid; as, a graphic writer.

{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}.>

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

graphic
adj 1: written or drawn or engraved; "graphic symbols" [syn: {graphical},
{in writing(p)}]
2: describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail;
"graphic sexual scenes"
3: of or relating to the graphic arts; "the etchings,
drypoints, lithographis, and engravings which together
form his graphic work"- Brit. Book News
4: relating to or presented by a graph; "a graphic presentation
of the data" [syn: {graphical}]
5: evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry
and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike
portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn: {lifelike}, {pictorial},
{vivid}]


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