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infographic

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — graphic sits at #5,459Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: infographics

An infographic is a picture built to explain figures at a glance. Publish an infographic.

A good one shows a relationship that a table would hide. A bad infographic decorates a number rather than explaining it, which is most of them.

Sameboat · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of infographic

  1. 1nouninfographicA picture built to explain figures at a glance.B2

    “The infographic was shared ten thousand times and got the units wrong.”

infographic is a picture.

Where it comes from

Info plus graphic, a shortening of information graphic.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *gerbʰ-

  2. Ancient Greek

    γραφικός — belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively

  3. Latin

    graphicus — belonging to painting or drawing

  4. English

    graphic

  5. English, today

    infographic

Built from

  • γραφή · Ancient Greek — drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.
  • γράφω · Ancient Greek — scratch, carve

From info- + graphic. graphic comes from Latin graphicus (“belonging to painting or drawing”), from Ancient Greek γραφικός (“belonging to painting or drawing, picturesque, of or for writing; of style, lively”), from γραφή (“drawing, painting, writing, a writing, description, etc.”), from γράφω (“scratch, carve”) (cognate with English carve).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in News & Communication

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infographic in the wild

  • Isotypes are an early example of infographics conveying information quickly and easily to the masses.

    Infographic

  • In June 2015, The Washington Post generated a detailed infographic portraying pricing data from eight major US cities.

    Price of Weed

  • In October 2016, David Floyd of Investopedia published an infographic in a post titled What Does Weed Cost in Your State?

    Price of Weed

  • The index is reproduced as an infographic by the Associated Press for national distribution.

    Washington & Jefferson College Energy Index

  • Piktochart is a web-based graphic design tool and infographic maker.

    Piktochart

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the graphicus family

graphicphotographic

infographic — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others