GRAPHICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does graphical mean? 

• GRAPHICAL (adjective)
  The adjective GRAPHICAL has 2 senses:

1. relating to or presented by a graph

2. written or drawn or engraved

  Familiarity information: GRAPHICAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAPHICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or presented by a graph

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

graphic; graphical

Context example:

a graphic presentation of the data

Pertainym:

graph (a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes)

Derivation:

graph (a visual display of information)

graph (a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Written or drawn or engraved

Synonyms:

graphic; graphical; in writing

Context example:

graphic symbols

Similar:

written (set down in writing in any of various ways)

 Context examples 

A graphical analysis technique based on a two compartment model that uses linear regression to identify and analyze pharmacokinetics problems involving irreversible uptake in one compartment.

(Patlak Plot, NCI Thesaurus)

A graphical representation of data where the values taken by a variable in a two-dimensional map are represented as colors.

(Heatmap, NCI Thesaurus)

An area of database record, or graphical user interface form, into which a particular item of data is entered.

(Data Field, NCI Thesaurus)

A graphical calculating device or a two-dimensional diagram designed to allow the approximate graphical computation of a function.

(Nomogram Chart, NCI Thesaurus)

A graphical display of the distribution of a set of data using the median, quartiles, and the extremes of the data set.

(Box Plot, NCI Thesaurus)