the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Of, pertaining to, using, or produced by photography.
Hence In lit., imitated or imitating with precise and minute detail, indicating lack of artistic feeling and originality in the writer.
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adj. representing people or nature with the exactness and fidelity of a photograph
adj. relating to photography or obtained by using photography
Word Usage
"The usual photographic plates, which have their principal sensibility in the violet parts of the spectrum, give us the _photographic_ magnitudes of the stars."