graphic

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
graphic/ˈɡrafɪk/

▶adjective

• 1 relating to visual art, especially involving drawing, engraving, or lettering.

  ■ Computing relating to or denoting a visual image.

• 2 giving vividly explicit detail.

• 3 of or in the form of a graph.

• 4 Geology of or denoting rocks having a surface texture resembling cuneiform writing.

▶noun Computing a graphical item displayed on a screen or stored as data.

– derivatives
graphicness noun.

– origin C17: via L. from Gk graphikos, from graphē ‘writing, drawing’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-graphic/ˈɡrafɪk/

▶combining form in adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -graphy.

– derivatives
-graphically combining form.

– origin suggested by Gk -graphikos, from graphē ‘writing, drawing’; partly from -graphy or -graph + -ic.