anagraphy
anagraphy noun: the relationship between an item's identity and the characteristics of the symbols or words used to represent it.
Noun
anagraphy (plural anagraphies)
- The relationship between an item's identity and the characteristics of the symbols or words used to represent it.
- I propose to show, however, that despite their strong literary connections both lyrics have a realist or factual hinterland, so that by working our way back from the lyrical tranfiguration to the underlying realities we can discover new elements about Laura's anagraphy and possible identity while...1985, Romance Studies: A Journal of the University of Wales
- In this way the subject is not something that is to be discovered, fresh and new, from the unknown, but is an effect that surges out of a flat, printed surface of unconscious memory, since sujet, following the prevailing logic of anagraphy (typographical anamorphosis), can be bent into j'ai su, or...1992, Michael Giordano, Studies on Béroalde de Verville, page 92
Forms of anagraphy
| plural | anagraphies |
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Questions about anagraphy
- What does anagraphy mean?
- Anagraphy means the relationship between an item's identity and the characteristics of the symbols or words used to represent it.
- What part of speech is anagraphy?
- Anagraphy is a noun.
- What is the plural of anagraphy?
- The plural of anagraphy is anagraphies.
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