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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.

 

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