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-graphy

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-graphy

 
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a combining form denoting a process or form of drawing, writing, representing, recording, describing, etc., or an art or science concerned with such a process: biography; choreography; geography; orthography; photography.
Origin:
< Gk -graphia. See -graph, -y 3
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-graphy  
suff.  

  1. Writing or representation produced in a specified manner or by a specified process: photography.

    1. Writing about a specified subject: oceanography.

    2. Representation of a specified object: phonography.


[Latin -graphia, from Greek -graphiā, from graphein, to write; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots.]
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-graphy suff.

  1. A writing or representation produced in a specified manner or by a specified process: tomography.

  2. A writing about or a representation of a specified thing: ophthalmography.

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