PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does pictorial representation mean?
• PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION (noun)
The noun PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION has 1 sense:
1. visual representation as by photography or painting
Familiarity information: PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION (noun)
Meaning:
Visual representation as by photography or painting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
pictorial representation; picturing
Hypernyms ("pictorial representation" is a kind of...):
representation (an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pictorial representation"):
delineation; depiction; portrayal (representation by drawing or painting etc)
imaging; tomography ((medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body)
photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)