Word Meanings - CHOROGRAPHICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to chorography. -- Cho`ro*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
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- GRAPHOTYPE
A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the - GRAPHOPHONE
A kind of photograph. - GRAPHITIC
Pertaining to, containing, derived from, or resembling, graphite. Graphitic acid , an organic acid, so called because obtained by the oxidation of graphite; -- usually called mellitic acid. -- Graphitic carbon, in iron or steel, that portion of - GRAPHICNESS; GRAPHICALNESS
The quality or state of being graphic. - GRAPHIC; GRAPHICAL
1. Of or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing. 2. Of or pertaining to the art of writing. 3. 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 - GRAPHOSCOPE
An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones. - GRAPHITOID; GRAPHITOIDAL
Resembling graphite or plumbago. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - GRAPHICALLY
In a graphic manner; vividly. - GRAPHISCOPE
See GRAPHOSCOPE - GRAPHITE
Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. - GRAPHICS
The art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the like. - GRAPHOLOGY
The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting. - GRAPHOLITE
Any species of slate suitable to be written on. - CHOROGRAPHY
the mapping or description of a region or district. The chorography of their provinces. Sir T. Browne. - HOLOGRAPH
A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be. (more info) "olo`grafos; "o`los whole + gra`fein to write: cf. F. holographe, - ELLIPTOGRAPH
See ELLIPSOGRAPH - SYNGRAPH
A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond. - PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
Pertaining to petrography. - CACOGRAPHY
Incorrect or bad writing or spelling. Walpole. - LITHOPHOTOGRAPHY
See PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY - HYDROGRAPHER
One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters. Boyle. - STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the - ANEMOGRAPH
An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind. Knight. - OSTEOGRAPHER
An osteologist. - PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
Pantographic. See Pantograph. - PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically - MULTIGRAPH
A combined rotary type-setting and printing machine for office use. The type is transferred semi-automatically by means of keys from a type-supply drum to a printing drum. The printing may be done by means of an inked ribbon to print "typewritten" - CINEMATOGRAPH
A machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion - CRYPTOGRAPHIST
See CRYPTOGRAPHER - LOGOGRAPHY
1. A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as single types, are used. 2. A mode of reporting speeches without using shorthand, -- a number of reporters, each in succession, taking down three or four words. Brande & C. - PLETHYSMOGRAPH
An instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb. -- Pleth`ys*mo*graph"ic, a. - PSALMOGRAPHY
The act or practice of writing psalms, or sacred songs. - STEREOTYPOGRAPHY
The act or art of printing from stereotype plates. - PHYTOGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to phytography.