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.
isography
1. Imitation of another’s handwriting.
2. Reproducing the same penmanship of someone else.
isokeraunographic
Designating areas over which the keraunographic records of thudnerstorm phenomena are the same or similar.
isometrograph
An instrument for tracing parallel lines at exactly equal distances.
kalotypography
Beautiful printing.
kamagraphy
A process for making copies of original paintings, using a special press and treated canvas, which reproduces exactly the colour and texture of the brushstrokes.
kapnography, kapnograph
Name for a mode of producing designs or pictures on a smoked surface of glass, etc.
kinematograph
An apparatus for showing motion-picture films.
kinematographic, kinematographically
A reference to the art, or science, of motion-picture photography.
kinematography
A contrivance by which a series of instantaneous photographs taken in rapid succession can be projected on a screen with similar rapidity, so as to give a life-like reproduction of the original moving scene.
kineograph
A picture representing objects in motion, produced by bringing separate pictures before the eye in such quick succession as to blend the images into one continuous impression.
kinetocardiography
The graphic recording of the slow vibrations of the anterior chest wall in the region of the heart, representing the absolute motion at a given point on the chest.
kinetograph
An early type of motion picture camera.
kinetographic
A reference to an early type of motion picture camera.
kymocyclograph
A device for recording the oscillations of an aircraft in flight.
kymograph
1. An instrument for graphically recording variations of pressure of a fluid; especially, of blood in the vessels of a living animal; a recording manometer; also called
kymographion.
Later used more widely; the instrument consists of a cylinder rotated by a clockwork or electric motor, together with a stylus designed to trace on a roll of paper wrapped around the cylinder a curve representing pressure variations or motion communicated to the stylus.
2. In radiology, an apparatus for recording the movement of the heart or other internal organs by moving an X-ray plate or film past one or more slits in a screen placed between it and the subject, so that movement of the organ in a direction parallel to a slit is recorded as a curve separating differently exposed portions of the radiograph.
Related "writing" word units:
glypto-;
gram-;
scrib-, script-.