Definition of ILLUSTRATION. Meaning of ILLUSTRATION. Synonyms of ILLUSTRATION

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Definition of ILLUSTRATION

Illustration
Illustration Il`lus*tra"tion, n. [L. illustratio: cf. F. illustration.] 1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity. 3. A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.

Meaning of ILLUSTRATION from wikipedia

- Archaeological illustration Book illustration Botanical illustration Concept art Fashion illustration Information graphics Livre d'art Technical illustration Medical...
- Fashion illustration is the art of communicating fashion ideas in a visual form through the use of drawing tools or design-based software programs. It...
- Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species. They are generally meant to be scientifically descriptive...
- The illustration of m****cript books was well established in ancient times, and the tradition of the illuminated m****cript thrived in the West until the...
- Medical illustration is the practice of creating illustrations or animations to visually represent medical or biological subjects that may be difficult...
- Biological illustration is the use of technical illustration to visually communicate the structure and specific details of biological subjects of study...
- Extra-illustration or grangerisation is the process whereby texts, normally in their published state, are customized by the incorporation of thematically...
- Archaeological illustration is a form of technical illustration that records material derived from an archaeological context graphically. Archaeological...
- The Climax is an 1893 illustration by Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), a leading artist of the Decadent (1880-1900) and Aesthetic movements. It depicts a...
- Digital illustration or computer illustration is the use of digital tools to produce images under the direct mani****tion of the artist, usually through...