Definition of "photographic" []

• Of, relating to, or consisting of photography or a photograph. (adjective)
• Used in photography: a photographic lens. (adjective)
• Resembling a photograph, especially representing or simulating something with great accuracy and fidelity of detail. (adjective)
• Capable of retaining accurate or vivid impressions: a photographic memory. (adjective)

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• "With regard to his other Query, I think there can be no doubt of his being at liberty to publish a photographic _copy_ of a portrait, Mr. Fox Talbot having reserved only the right to paper copies of a _photographic_ portrait."
• "The usual photographic plates, which have their principal sensibility in the violet parts of the spectrum, give us the _photographic_ magnitudes of the stars."
• "The term photographic suggests that the viewer of material takes a mental photo of what he or she has seen and can latter draw upon that image to recall the information one has encountered."