photographic

adj
/ˌfəʊtəˈɡɹæfɪk/UK/ˌfoʊɾəˈɡɹæfɪk/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- Ancient Greek -γραφικός (-graphikós)der. Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor. French -graphieder. English -graphy Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English -graphic ▲ English photo- ▲ Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English photograph ▲ English -ic English photographic From photo- + -graphic or photograph + -ic.

  1. derived from -γραφία
  2. suffixed as -graphic — “-graphy + ic
  3. formed as photographic — “photo- + -graphic

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to photographs or photography.

    • This shop stocks all the latest photographic equipment.
    • There is also a fine dance and concert hall, a capacious reading room, a well-appointed billiards room with five tables, various committee and games rooms, photographic dark rooms, and a small but compact ladies' lounge.
  2. Synonym of accurate.

    • What each evangelist preserved is not a photographic reproduction of the words and deeds of Jesus, but an interpretative portrait delineated in accord with the special needs of the early church.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at photographic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at photographic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at photographic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA