Graphic : adj., nm et nf (word from the Greek graphikos).
The word “graphic” has several meanings:
I) Adjective:
1. Who represents, by lines, Figures on a surface.
signs, print graphics.
Representation graphic.
System graphic (alphabet, writing).
Arts graphics (drawing, paint).
(English tracing graphic novel) Roman graphic: comic strip characteristics formal (format, pagination, graphics) and narratives more free than those of works traditional du gender.
2. relative Asked processes de representation by lines et Figures.
Construction chart : representation an body by cuts, cried, elevations.
Method, process chart : representation graphic of relations abstract ; employment of appliances recorders.
IT: Relating to traitement of images, of drawings, graphics.
Graphic card.
3. Relating to the processes ofimpressions, manufacturing from print, toedition de documents.
Manufacturing graphic.
The graphic chain (model, pre-press, printing, shaping...).
Graphical charter : together of codes formal, colors, etc. presiding over the implementation forms and aspect an document.
II) Male name: A graphic: representation du investigation report of two variables by line joining points characteristics (the abscissa represents a height , example the time ; the ordinates the other, example thespace) (curve, diagram, plot).
The graph of temperatures an sick.
Graph drawn by a recording device.
Graphical representation of a statistic.
– Quote from the French poet and novelist Louis Aragon (1897-1882): “He writes the production curves of the factory on graphs”.
By extension (common sense): Representation graph (of a phénomène) (graph).
Phenomenon economic represented by a graph (histogram).
Chart in columns, riding a demi-circle (familiar : Camembert).
III) Feminine name (didactic): A graphic: Technical de representation an phénomène or an reality any using drawings,images or diagrams, graphics.
Opposite of graph: oral administration.