Graphic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Graphic	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Graphic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
graphic adj written or drawn or engraved; "graphic symbols" [syn: graphic, graphical, in writing(p)] describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail; "graphic sexual scenes" of or relating to the graphic arts; "the etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work"- British Book News relating to or presented by a graph; "a graphic presentation of the data" Synonym(s): graphic, graphical evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" Synonym(s): graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid n an image that is generated by a computer [syn: graphic, computer graphic]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
-graph \-graph\ (-gr[adot]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[acr]f"[icr]k), Graphical \Graph"ical\ (-[icr]k[ait]l), 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}.>