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photographic

Word definitions for photographic in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a photographic collection ▪ The museum’s photographic collection dates from the nineteenth century. a photographic memory (= the ability to remember every detail of things that you have seen ) ▪ Unless you have ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to photography or obtained by using photography; "photographic equipment" representing people or nature with the exactness and fidelity of a photograph

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to photographs or photography.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Photographic \Pho`to*graph"ic\, Photographical \Pho`to*graph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. photographique.] Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly , ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1839, from photograph + -ic . Photographic memory is from 1940. Related: Photographical ; photographically .

Usage examples of photographic.

Everett Everett Barr passed the portentous strip of photographic paper around for examination.

Figure 279 represents a somewhat similar hypertrophic condition of the scalp and face reported in the Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery, 1870.

If an alien probe is there, could we spot it among the countless dots and specks that will represent stars, micrometeorites, planetoids, photographic plate flaws, and dust?

Yes, Miss Phosphor McCabe did the really stunning photographic article for Heritage Geographical Magazine.

Donchez shook his head as he crouched over a table with the CIA photographic intelligence of the OMEGA submarine surfaced at the icecap, the detail fine enough to see the rungs of the handholds going up the side of the sail to the bridge.

One day he noticed that unexposed photographic plates were ruined when they were stored near the tubes.

Just as the Action Picture has its photographic basis or fundamental metaphor in the long chase down the highway, so the Intimate Film has its photographic basis in the fact that any photoplay interior has a very small ground plan, and the cosiest of enclosing walls.

The fanged and grinning head, turned up by some freak so that the empty eyepits stared at the two men above, bore a photographic resemblance to the dragons of his childhood reading!

We pressed a series of gelatin-coated photographic papers onto the comforter with a hot iron and then treated the papers to find the presence of nitrates, which would be found if there existed nitrocellulose on the comforter that had been incompletely burned.

Skyjack proposal by photographic impressions on photomagnetic wire fine enough for a coil of the wire to measure less than, say, twenty or thirty inches?

As they negotiated the clutter of solenoids, induction coils, Crookes tubes, and photographic equipment, all inexplicably intertwined with pipets and tubing, Harold felt himself sorely missing the opportunities provided by a good lab.

A glimpse of that beakish profile in the flesh would give The Shadow a photographic impression that he would not forget.

Although the photographic impresario with the failing eyesight had kept to his agreement and permitted a credit linein the smallest typeto the operators who had made the stunning pictures, the photos were presented as a Brady Gallery special event.

While Scott was posing with his shirt off, an English actress entered for her photographic appointment and Brady had quickly stepped in front of the general, saving the day by preserving his modesty.

Again the viewscreen crackled and a crazyquilt of static coalesced to form a photographic likeness of Abraham Lincoln.