Used in a Sentence

photographic

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for photographic.

Editorial note

A video camera or some similar piece of recording equipment - even a photographic film plate - will do fine.

Examples15
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Pertaining to photographs or photography.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of photographic gathered in one view.

adjective

Pertaining to photographs or photography.

adjective

(figurative) Synonym of accurate.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for photographic.

adjective

Pertaining to photographs or photography.

adjective

(figurative) Synonym of accurate.

Example sentences

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A video camera or some similar piece of recording equipment - even a photographic film plate - will do fine.

2

Neutrino oscillations were experimentally observed by shooting a beam of neutrinos through a long, narrow pile of photographic film at cern.

3

Not all of us have photographic memories, so the vast userbase, as a result, will have great difficulty in deleting their account.

4

We found that Tesseract had too many built-in goodies for image scanning, like warped characters, lighting and shadow defects, and photographic artifacts.

5

If I just remember all the code because I have some kind of special photographic memory is that stealing?

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The photographic amateur may be better-educated, better-equipped and better-practiced than the professional.

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Now I know what they're up to, am reminded of their birthdays, and get photographic proof of their successful reproduction.

8

I'm not at my photographic peak these days, but the photos are still meaningful and become more so over time.

9

Culling is an important part of the photographic process.

10

The biggest change to my working habits (apart for working in a SPA) is that every non-photographic image I use is now SVG.

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The output medium is what I want to control in my photographic process.

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Unless you have a photographic memory, you just paste it into a protected archive, forget it, and then wait until the date to get emailed a password reminder.

Quote examples

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Some of the aesthetic is captured in Winogrand's great photographic opus, "1964".

2

He was apparently unaware that to point an observatory scope that close to the sun - I don't recall whether it was the 100" or the 60" - would melt the glass photographic plate.

3

It's a bit disconcerting at first, probably because we're very much used to incandescent light indoors ("daylight" photographic incandescents might hit 4200K when they're brand new, and they're WAY blue compared to standard bulbs at around 2500-2800K) but it can hardly be described as "horrible".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use photographic in a sentence?

A video camera or some similar piece of recording equipment - even a photographic film plate - will do fine.

What does photographic mean?

Pertaining to photographs or photography.

What part of speech is photographic?

photographic is commonly used as adjective.