PHOTOGRAPHIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does photographic mean? 

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

1. relating to photography or obtained by using photography

2. representing people or nature with the exactness and fidelity of a photograph

  Familiarity information: PHOTOGRAPHIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOTOGRAPHIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to photography or obtained by using photography

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

photographic equipment

Pertainym:

photography (the act of taking and printing photographs)

Derivation:

photograph (a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format)

photography (the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies)

photography (the act of taking and printing photographs)

photography (the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Representing people or nature with the exactness and fidelity of a photograph

Similar:

exact (marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact)

 Context examples 

A technique used to locate radioactively labeled molecules, or fragments of molecules, by recording on a photographic or sensor plate the radiation emitted by radioactive material within a molecule.

(Autoradiography, NCI Thesaurus)

A photographic material designed to capture an image upon exposure to electromagnetic radiation.

(Film Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

The image from a photographic or sensor plate used in a autoradiography process.

(Autoradiographic Image, NCI Thesaurus)

It involves passing light transmitted through or reflected from the subject through a series of lenses to be detected directly by the eye, imaged on a photographic plate, or captured digitally.

(Light Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

Autoradiographic analysis performed by mounting the object for microscopy (e.g., on a glass slide) and bathing the object with a photographic emulsion that will record radioactive disintegrations occurring at close proximity.

(Microscopic Autoradiography, NCI Thesaurus)

I was silenced for the moment, while his eyes wandered on to an adjoining decoration, a photographic reproduction of somebody's "Leda and the Swan."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A centrifugation technique that utilizes photographic capability to determine the time it takes a particle to travel through a centrifuge cell under standard conditions.

(Analytical Centrifugation, NCI Thesaurus)

Produced as an inhibitor, an antioxidant, and an intermediate in the synthesis of dyes, motor fuels, and oils; in photographic processing; and naturally in certain plant species, Hydroquinone is a phenol derivative with antioxidant properties that can cause toxicity in several organs, notably the kidney.

(Hydroquinone, NCI Thesaurus)

The Electron Microscopy Shared Resource provides the following services to Cancer Center researchers: counseling on the appropriate electron microscopy method for particular project, sample preparation and ultrastructural analysis by conventional electron microscopy, photographic and digital documentation of the samples, analysis and interpretation of the results, preparation of presentation-quality images.

(Electron Microscopy Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Photographic images captured electronically.

(Digital photography, NCI Thesaurus)