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GRAPHIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An image that is generated by a computer
Synonyms:
computer graphic; graphic
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("graphic" is a kind of...):
icon; ikon; image; picture (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail
Example:
graphic sexual scenes
Classified under:
Similar:
explicit; expressed (precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Evoking lifelike images within the mind
Example:
a vivid description
Synonyms:
graphic; lifelike; pictorial; vivid
Classified under:
Similar:
realistic (aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Written or drawn or engraved
Example:
graphic symbols
Synonyms:
graphic; graphical; in writing
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
written (set down in writing in any of various ways)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Relating to or presented by a graph
Example:
a graphic presentation of the data
Synonyms:
graphic; graphical
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
graph (a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Of or relating to the graphic arts
Example:
the etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
graphics (the drawings and photographs in the layout of a book)
Context examples:
Graphic representation and categorization of the electrical vectors produced by the depolarization and repolarization of myocardial tissue.
(Electrocardiographic Finding, NCI Thesaurus)
In fact, he rather prided himself on his narrow escapes, and liked to thrill the girls with graphic accounts of his triumphs over wrathful tutors, dignified professors, and vanquished enemies.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A computer environment in which multiple linkages enable users to move directly from one segment of audio, video, graphic, or text to another in a database.
(Hypermedia, NCI Thesaurus)
All written, printed, or graphic matter accompanying an article at any time while such article is in interstate commerce or held for sale after shipment or delivery in interstate commerce.
(Labeling, NCI Thesaurus)
A computer-controlled presentation of some combination of audio, video, animation, graphics, still photo, and/or text where users can control the presentation and often interact with it.
(Multimedia, NCI Thesaurus)
Issue associated with users being unclear and not able to follow any written, printed, or graphic matter that is affixed to a medical device or its containers, wrappers; with any matter that accompanies a medical device including verbal instructions related to identification, technical description and use of the medical device provided by the device manufactures that vary from the standard of medical care in a given environment.
(Confusing Instruction for Medical Device Use, Food and Drug Administration)
Any display of a written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any substance or device to identify something and to indicate the nature, ownership, contents and other characteristic particulars of the object.
(Medical Product Label, NCI Thesaurus)
Issue associated with the written, printed or graphic material that is affixed to a medical device or any of its containers or wrappers or accompanying the device including verbal instructions, relating to identification, technical description, and usage which are provided by the device manufacturers.
(Medical Device Markings Issue, Food and Drug Administration)
Computerized compilations of information units (text, sound, graphics, and/or video) interconnected by logical nonlinear linkages that enable users to follow optimal paths through the material and also the systems used to create and display this information.
(Hypermedia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The likeability of an artificial agent increases the more human-like it becomes, but only up to a point: sometimes people seem not to like it when the robot or computer graphic becomes too human-like.
(Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain, University of Cambridge)
