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Graphics are defined as visual presentations such as artwork, drawings or designs including type.

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The pictures on a website are an example of graphics.

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See graphics in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the art of making drawings, as in architecture or engineering, in accordance with mathematical rules
calculation of stresses, etc. from such drawings
1. design, including the use of typography, as employed in the graphic arts
2. graphic arts (sense )
computer graphics

Origin: < graphic

See graphics in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. (used with a sing. verb) The making of drawings in accordance with the rules of mathematics, as in engineering or architecture.
b. (used with a pl. verb) Calculations, as of structural stress, from such drawings.
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) See graphic arts.
Computer Science
a. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The pictorial representation and manipulation of data, as used in computer-aided design and manufacture, in typesetting and the graphic arts, and in educational and recreational programs.
b. (used with a sing. verb) The process by which a computer displays data pictorially.

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