PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pictorial representation mean? 

• PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION (noun)
  The noun PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION has 1 sense:

1. visual representation as by photography or painting

  Familiarity information: PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Visual representation as by photography or painting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

pictorial representation; picturing

Hypernyms ("pictorial representation" is a kind of...):

representation (an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent)

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

delineation; depiction; portrayal (representation by drawing or painting etc)

imaging; tomography ((medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body)

photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)

 Context examples 

A pictorial representation of a graph on plane, for visualization of certain properties of the graph or of the data modeled by the graph.

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