Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graphic \Graph"ic\ (gr[a^]f"[i^]k), Graphical \Graph"ic*al\ (gr[a^]f"[i^]*kal), a. [L. graphicus, Gr. grafiko`s, fr. gra`fein to write; cf. F. graphique. See Graft.]
Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing; of or pertaining to graphics; as, graphic art work. [WordNet sense 2]
Of or pertaining to the art of writing.
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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. Having the faculty of clear, detailed, and impressive description; as, a graphic writer.
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Well delineated; clearly and vividly described; characterized by, clear, detailed, and impressive description; vivid; evoking lifelike images within the mind; as graphic details of the President's sexual misbehavior; a graphic description of the accident; graphic images of violence. [WordNet sense 5]
Syn: lifelike, pictorial, vivid.
Hence: describing nudity or sexual activity in explicit detail; as, a novel with graphic sex scenes.
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relating to or presented by a graph[2]; as, a graphic presentation of the data. [WordNet sense 3]
Syn: graphical.
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.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, related to, or shown on a graph. 2 (context computing English) Of, related to, or using graphics. 3 Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines.
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Usage examples of "graphical".
But Bracewell thought that a space probe might send us a star map, and since the stars are placed at random in the sky the delay times could be graphical coordinates.
If you plan to build in a rural area, they also maintain graphical representations of the average temperatures so that you may extrapolate them for your site.
Making a photorealistic hologram of an imaginary object taxed the most powerful graphical workstation.
Centuria Librorum Absconditorum: being Notes Bio- Biblio- Icono graphical and Critical, on Curious and Uncommon Books (London, 1879).
Not at all: you grasp a few letters accurately, a few downstrokes in their graphical outline.
But the code required to give the same program a graphical user interface would probably run into hundreds or even thousands of lines, depending on how fancy the programmer wanted to make it.
Ordo's also got a lovely graphical user interface, but Randy scorns it.
In effect we still used Victorian technology to communicate with computers until about 1984, when the Macintosh was introduced with its Graphical User Interface.
At the time, I simply couldn't get my mind around this, but: as far as Apple's hackers were concerned, the Mac's vaunted Graphical User Interface was an impediment, something to be circumvented before the little toaster even came out onto the market.
Keeping in mind that FLAG's investors were mostly high-finance types with little technical or nautical background, they gave the browser a familiar, easy-to-use graphical user interface.
But it also reflected the purely technical demands of running a graphical user interface.
I made my way back to the GUI panel and did a system diagnostic using its graphical user interface.
Even after that, the Command Line continued to exist as an underlying stratum--a sort of brainstem reflex--of many modern computer systems all through the heyday of Graphical User Interfaces, or GUIs as I will call them from now on.
People who have only interacted with computers through graphical user interfaces like the MacOS or Windows--which is to say, almost everyone who has ever used a computer--may have been startled, or at least bemused, to hear about the telegraph machine that I used to communicate with a computer in 1973.
The development of graphical user interfaces has led to rapid growth in personal computer use over the last decade, and the coupling of that technology with the Internet has caused explosive growth in the use of the World Wide Web, generating enormous demand for bandwidth.