photograph

Definition

A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

Etymology

From photo- + -graph.

Example Sentences

• "The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards."
• "A photograph showing a column of tenodd cars with black registration plates moving along an empty highway on their way to Subotica, […]"
• "Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story."