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Definition of Illustration

1. Noun. Artwork that helps make something clear or attractive.

2. Noun. Showing by example.

3. Noun. An item of information that is typical of a class or group. "There is an example on page 10"

4. Noun. A visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand.

Definition of Illustration

1. n. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

Definition of Illustration

1. Noun. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. ¹

2. Noun. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity. ¹

3. Noun. A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work. ¹

4. Noun. A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)"an illustration [...] is a computer projection of future premiums, cash values and death benefits based on the current dividend scale (whole life) or current interest rates and current costs of insurance (universal life)." taken from ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Illustration

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Illustration

illusions illusive illusively illusiveness illusivenesses illusorily illusoriness illusorinesses illusory illuster

illustrable illustrate illustrated illustrates illustrating illustration (current term) illustrational illustrations illustrative illustratively

illustrator illustrators illustratory illustre illustrious illustriously illustriousness illustrous illutation illutations

Literary usage of Illustration

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

1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1873)
"I would cheerfully have given a ' hundred pounds to have kept this illustration out of the ' book. He never could have got that idea of Mrs. ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"Oros. La Salvetat et ses environs. Par MG Gros. With illustration*. ... Maps and illustration». Price 3s. net. Presented by the Author. ..."

3. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"Two of these nails are represented in the annexed illustration, of two thirds the real size ; they consist of 88 parts of copper to 12 of tiu. ..."

4. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"illustration of change in words. It will not be in place in this connection to enter into any elaborate linguistic studies, but one illustration may be used ..."

5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"In this able exposition of the Decalogue, the author has successfully laboured in bringing into one view a great amount of illustration from the Law, ..."

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