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| 1. | a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling. |
| 2. | a greatly enlarged photograph attached directly to a wall. |
| 3. | a wallpaper pattern representing a landscape or the like, often with very widely spaced repeats so as to produce the effect of a mural painting on a wall of average size; a trompe l'oeil. |
| 4. | of, pertaining to, or resembling a wall. |
| 5. | executed on or affixed to a wall: mural inscriptions. |
| 6. | pertaining to any of several astronomical instruments that were affixed to a wall aligned on the plane of a meridian, and were formerly used to measure the altitude of celestial bodies: a mural quadrant; a mural circle. |
| mu·ral (myŏŏr'əl) n. A very large image, such as a painting or enlarged photograph, applied directly to a wall or ceiling. adj.
[Middle English, of a wall, from Old French, from Latin mūrālis, from mūrus, wall.] mu'ral·ist n. |
A painting, usually large, made directly on a wall.
Note: The Mexican artist Diego Rivera was noted for his production of murals.
mural mu·ral (my&oobreve;r'əl)
adj.
Of or relating to the wall of any cavity.
