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Definition of Graphic
1. Adjective. Written or drawn or engraved. "Graphic symbols"
2. Noun. An image that is generated by a computer.
3. Adjective. Describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail. "Graphic sexual scenes"
4. Adjective. Of or relating to the graphic arts. "The etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work"
5. Adjective. Relating to or presented by a graph. "A graphic presentation of the data"
6. Adjective. Evoking lifelike images within the mind. "A vivid description"
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
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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