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語源

From Latin graphicus (“belonging to painting または drawing”), from Ancient Greek γραφικός (graphikós, “belonging to painting または drawing, picturesque, of または for writing; of style, lively”), from γραφή (graphḗ, “drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.”), from γράφω (gráphō, “scratch, carve”) (cognate with English carve).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæfɪk/
  • 韻: -æfɪk

形容詞

graphic (comparative more graphic, superlative most graphic)

1. Drawn, pictorial.
2. Vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.
3. (geology) Having a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.

   graphic granite

派生語

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名詞

graphic (複数形 graphics)

1. A drawing or picture.
2. (mostly in 複数形) A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.

   I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing.

3. A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

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Further reading

• “graphic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “graphic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• graphic at OneLook Dictionary Search