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photographic

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From photo- +‎ -graphic or photograph +‎ -ic.

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photographic (comparative more photographic, superlative most photographic)

  1. Pertaining to photographs or photography.
    This shop stocks all the latest photographic equipment.
    • 1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
      There is also a fine dance and concert hall, a capacious reading room, a well-appointed billiards room with five tables, various committee and games rooms, photographic dark rooms, and a small but compact ladies' lounge.
  2. (figurative) Synonym of accurate
    What each evangelist preserved is not a photographic reproduction of the words and deeds of Jesus, but an interpretative portrait delineated in accord with the special needs of the early church.
    — Bruce Metzger

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