Graphic /(grăf"ĭk)/

Graph·ic

Graphic

Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing; of or pertaining to graphics; as, graphic art work.
Of or pertaining to the art of writing.
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.
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.
describing nudity or sexual activity in explicit detail; as, a novel with graphic sex scenes.
relating to or presented by a graph{2}; as, a graphic presentation of the data.

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: 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: a branch of statics, in which the magnitude, direction, and position of forces are represented by straight lines -- Graphic tellurium.