grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia +
(Greek: to scratch; to write, to record, to draw, to describe; that which is written or described)
As indicated at the bottom of this page, there are at least 1,140 graphic word groups in this unit. Such an extensive listing is provided to show how significant the grapho- element is to the English language.
cartographic, cartographical
1. Relating to the tools and techniques of surveying land surfaces for the purposes of making maps, or the graphic tools and techniques used to produce maps.
2. A reference to the science, skill, or work of making maps.
cartography
1. The science, skill, or work of making maps.
2. The art or technique of making maps or charts.
3. Etymology: from French
cartographie, from Middle Latin
carta, "paper".
Maps are graphic simplifications of reality, portraying relationships on the surface of the earth, or other celestial bodies, with points, lines, areas, symbols, colors, and typography.
Some maps are charts that display data specifically for nautical and aeronautical navigation. A map can be either two-dimensional or three-dimensional.
cathodography, cathodograph, cathodographic
A photograph of normally invisible objects taken by means of cathode rays; an X-ray photograph.
cecography, cecograph
A writing apparatus for the blind.
celidography, celidograph
A description of the spots on the sun or planets.
ceramograph, ceramograph
The historical description of pottery.
ceraunograph, ceraunography, keraunograph, keraunography
1. An instrument for chronologically recording occurrences of thunder (thunderstorms) and lightning (lightnings or thunderbolts).
2. A figure impressed by lightning upon a body or material.
3. In meteorology, an apparatus, consisting essentially of an antenna connected to a galvanometer or electroscope, for recording the occurrence of a distant thunderstorm.
cerograph
A drawing, design, or text incised (cut) into a wax surface.
cerographic
A reference to etchings on wax.
cerographical
Referring to the art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
cerographically
1. A reference to writing or painting on or in wax.
2. Characterized by the application of the encaustic painting of the ancients.
3. Relating to the engraving on wax spread on a sheet of copper, from which a stereotype plate is taken.
cerographist
Someone who engages in the process of writing or engraving on wax.
cerography
Writing, or printing, on plates spread with wax.
cervicography
Technique, equivalent to colposcopy, for photographing part or all of the uterine cervix.
chalcographer, chalcographist
Someone one who engraves on copper or brass.
Related "writing" word units:
glypto-;
gram-;
scrib-, script-.
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