photographic
[foh-tuh-graf-ik]
- of or relating to photography.
- used in, or produced by means of, photography: photographic equipment; the photographic coverage of a newspaper.
- suggestive of a photograph; extremely realistic and detailed: photographic accuracy.
- remembering, reproducing, or functioning with the precision of a photograph: a photographic memory.
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Sometimes pho·to·graph·i·cal.
Origin of photographic
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Related Words
visual, pictorial, vivid, cinematic, accurate, detailed, faithful, graphic, lifelike, minute, natural, picturesque, precise, realistic, filmicExamples from the Web for photographic
Contemporary Examples
Throughout the rest of the room are similar examples of photographic inspiration.
In one of my homicides, I had one wonderful witness, a legit Good Samaritan with 20-20 vision and photographic memory.
At least in the photographic darkroom, the first time you go in, the lights are on.
Pistoletto uses life-size mirrors as a base on which he adds painted figures or photographic prints.
Lots of photographs, photographic websites, or libraries in London.
Historical Examples
They formed on the view exactly as an image develops on a photographic plate.
The ForestStewart Edward White
No photographic fac-simile of the document, however, could be obtained.
Washington's Masonic CorrespondenceJulius F. Sachse
Once he took us to be photographed with him in some big English photographic studio.
My ReminiscencesRabindranath Tagore
The photographic magnitudes are then unequivocally determined.
Lectures on Stellar StatisticsCarl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier
He had a photographic glimpse of one of his men emerging through a doorway.
MoraleMurray Leinster
photographic
- of or relating to photographya photographic society; photographic materials
- like a photograph in accuracy or detail
- (of a person's memory) able to retain facts, appearances, etc, in precise detail, often after only a very short view of or exposure to them
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Word Origin and History for photographic
adj.
1839, from photograph + -ic. Photographic memory is from 1940. Related: Photographical; photographically.
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