GRAPHICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does graphics mean? 

• GRAPHICS (noun)
  The noun GRAPHICS has 2 senses:

1. photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication

2. the drawings and photographs in the layout of a book

  Familiarity information: GRAPHICS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAPHICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

art; artwork; graphics; nontextual matter

Context example:

the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book

Hypernyms ("graphics" is a kind of...):

visual communication (communication that relies on vision)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "graphics"):

illustration (artwork that helps make something clear or attractive)

drawing (an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper)

Holonyms ("graphics" is a part of...):

publication (a copy of a printed work offered for distribution)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The drawings and photographs in the layout of a book

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("graphics" is a kind of...):

graphic art (the arts of drawing or painting or printmaking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "graphics"):

computer graphics (the pictorial representation and manipulation of data by a computer)

 Context examples 

A microprocessor specifically designed for processing 3D graphics data.

(Graphics Processing Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

A computer-controlled presentation of some combination of audio, video, animation, graphics, still photo, and/or text where users can control the presentation and often interact with it.

(Multimedia, NCI Thesaurus)

Models used experimentally or theoretically to study molecular shape, electronic properties, or interactions; includes analogous molecules, computer-generated graphics, and mechanical structures.

(Molecular Model, NCI Thesaurus)

Materials, frequently computer applications, that combine some or all of text, sound, graphics, animation, and video into integrated packages.

(Multimedia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Computerized compilations of information units (text, sound, graphics, and/or video) interconnected by logical nonlinear linkages that enable users to follow optimal paths through the material and also the systems used to create and display this information.

(Hypermedia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The Art Services Shared Resource supports Cancer Center members by providing advice, customized design, and reproduction services to meet the needs of individual scientists, departments and educational programs for art, computer-imaging, graphics and photography services, including needs for scientific publications and presentations, printing, and audiovisual media.

(Illustration Graphic Art Publication and Audiovisual Service Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)