photographic

[foh-tuh-graf-ik]

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adjective

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.

Sometimes pho·to·graph·i·cal.

Origin of photographic

First recorded in 1839; photograph + -ic

Related formspho·to·graph·i·cal·ly, adverbnon·pho·to·graph·ic, adjectivenon·pho·to·graph·i·cal, adjectivenon·pho·to·graph·i·cal·ly, adverb

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Related Words for photographic

visual, pictorial, vivid, cinematic, accurate, detailed, faithful, graphic, lifelike, minute, natural, picturesque, precise, realistic, filmic

Examples from the Web for photographic

Contemporary Examples of photographic

Throughout the rest of the room are similar examples of photographic inspiration.
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In one of my homicides, I had one wonderful witness, a legit Good Samaritan with 20-20 vision and photographic memory.
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October 19, 2014
At least in the photographic darkroom, the first time you go in, the lights are on.
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Pistoletto uses life-size mirrors as a base on which he adds painted figures or photographic prints.
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Lots of photographs, photographic websites, or libraries in London.
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Historical Examples of photographic

They formed on the view exactly as an image develops on a photographic plate.
The Forest
Stewart Edward White
No photographic fac-simile of the document, however, could be obtained.
Washington's Masonic Correspondence
Julius F. Sachse
Once he took us to be photographed with him in some big English photographic studio.
My Reminiscences
Rabindranath Tagore
The photographic magnitudes are then unequivocally determined.
Lectures on Stellar Statistics
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier
He had a photographic glimpse of one of his men emerging through a doorway.
Morale
Murray Leinster

British Dictionary definitions for photographic

photographic

adjective

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

Derived Formsphotographically, adverb

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Word Origin and History for photographic

adj.

1839, from photograph + -ic. Photographic memory is from 1940. Related: Photographical; photographically.