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Graphic
Definitions
- 1 Drawn, pictorial.
- 2 Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
- 3 Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.
"graphic granite"
- 1 describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail wordnet
- 2 evoking lifelike images within the mind wordnet
- 3 written or drawn or engraved wordnet
- 4 relating to or presented by a graph wordnet
- 5 of or relating to the graphic arts wordnet
- 1 A drawing or picture.
- 2 an image that is generated by a computer wordnet
- 3 A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc. plural
"I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing."
- 4 A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.
Etymology
From Latin graphicus (“belonging to painting or drawing”), from Ancient Greek γραφικός (graphikós, “belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively”), from γραφή (graphḗ, “drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.”), from γράφω (gráphō, “scratch, carve”) (cognate with English carve).
From Latin graphicus (“belonging to painting or drawing”), from Ancient Greek γραφικός (graphikós, “belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively”), from γραφή (graphḗ, “drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.”), from γράφω (gráphō, “scratch, carve”) (cognate with English carve).
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