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# photographic

adjective (photographic)

«photographic» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Photographic means to do with photographs or photography. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x1)
- She has an almost photographic memory. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x2)
- The police found photographic evidence. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x3)
- He works in a photographic studio. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x4)
- The book has beautiful photographic pictures of animals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x5)
- We need photographic ID to enter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x6)
- The class set up a photographic display. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/#x7)
- Photographic film had to be developed in a dark room. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «photographic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/photographic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«photographic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/photographic.html) on Mova free.