Definition of Graphic

1. Noun. An image that is generated by a computer.

Exact synonyms: Computer Graphic
Generic synonyms: Icon, Ikon, Image, Picture

2. Adjective. Written or drawn or engraved. "Graphic symbols"
Exact synonyms: Graphical, In Writing
Similar to: Written

3. Adjective. Describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail. "Graphic sexual scenes"
Similar to: Explicit, Expressed

4. Adjective. Of or relating to the graphic arts. "The etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work"
Partainyms: Graphics

5. Adjective. Relating to or presented by a graph. "A graphic presentation of the data"
Exact synonyms: Graphical
Partainyms: Graph, Graph
Derivative terms: Graph

6. Adjective. Evoking lifelike images within the mind. "A vivid description"
Exact synonyms: Lifelike, Pictorial, Vivid
Similar to: Realistic
Derivative terms: Vividness

Definition of Graphic

1. a. Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing.

Definition of Graphic

1. Adjective. drawn, pictorial ¹

2. Adjective. vivid, descriptive ¹

3. Adjective. grotesque or otherwise repulsively gory ¹

4. Adjective. pornographic ¹

5. Noun. A drawing or picture. ¹

6. Noun. (context: mostly in plural) A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Graphic

1. a product of the art of representation [n -S]

Medical Definition of Graphic

1. 1. Of or pertaining to the arts of painting, drawing or writing. 2. Well delineated; clearly and vividly described. 3. Having the faculty of, or characterised by, clear and impressive description; vivid; as, a gruphic 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. Origin: L. Graphicus, Gr, fr. To write; cf. F. Graphique. See Graft. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Graphic

graph theorists
graph theory
graph toughness
graphane
graphanesthesia
graphed
grapheme
graphemes
graphemic
graphemically
graphemics
graphene
graphene layer
graphenes
graphesthesia
graphic aphasia
graphic art
graphic artist
graphic formula
graphic novel
graphic novelist
graphic novelists
graphic novels
graphic symbol
graphic tellurium
graphical
graphical record
graphical user interface
graphical user interfaces

Literary usage of Graphic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori (1912)
"graphic language, therefore, may be considered from two points of view: (a) That of the conquest of a new language of eminent social importance which adds ..."

2. Algebra: An Elementary Text Book for the Higher Classes of Secondary Schools by George Chrystal (1886)
"Q is then the graphic point which represents the value of the function z =f(r, y). To every variable point in the plane XOY there corresponds a graphic ..."

3. Engineering Education: Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Society by Meeting (1896)
"The claims of graphic methods to a place in our courses of study have been repeatedly urged, ... graphic statics usually finds some place in the curriculum, ..."

4. American Book Prices Current (1913)
"graphic Pictures; More graphic Pictures ... Last graphic Pictures; and Gleanings from the graphic. Lond., 1883-89. 4 vols., oblong fol. ..."

5. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"graphic REPRESENTATION OF SERIES OF OBSER VA TIONS. Appendix to Examination of Air. § 140. We very often obtain from our observations numerical results, ..."

6. Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent by Walter Bradford Cannon (1920)
"Diagram of the graphic coagulometer. The can- nula at the right rests in a water bath not ... The instrument by means of which this was done was the graphic ..."

7. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1891)
"The lack of exact data is a considerable hindrance to a satisfactory graphic representation, as the majority of the observers of migration ..."

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