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# photographic

«photographic» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do with photographs or photography** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (photographic)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Photographic means to do with photographs or photography. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#m1)

2) A photographic memory lets someone remember things in great detail, like a picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: photographic equipment, photographic film, photographic studios. In stories a character with a «photographic memory» remembers everything they see. Science note: true photographic memory is very rare or may not exist. Phrases: «photographic evidence», «photographic memory».

### examples

- The museum has an old photographic camera. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x1)
- She has an almost photographic memory. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x2)
- The police found photographic evidence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x3)
- He works in a photographic studio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x4)
- The book has beautiful photographic pictures of animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x5)
- We need photographic ID to enter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x6)
- The class set up a photographic display. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x7)
- Photographic film had to be developed in a dark room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x8)
- When the eye of the murdered man closes, the picture of what it saw last clings to it for a time like a photographic picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x9)

### note

Stress: pho-to-GRAPH-ic. Myth: many people claim a «photographic memory», but scientists find very few people really have one.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «photographic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.