visual representations

Images showing something

Visual representations are images, diagrams, charts, or other graphic forms that convey information or ideas through sight rather than words alone.

The term encompasses everything from photographs and paintings to data visualizations and architectural drawings: The report included visual representations of the survey data.

In legal and academic contexts, the phrase often appears in discussions of evidence or intellectual property.

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painting · cave painting · collage · line · illustration · infographic · heat map · word cloud · shape · diagram · pie chart · bar graph · flowchart · mind map · photograph · sculpture · mural · motion graphics

Opposites
sensory modality

visual representationsspoken language

Audible verbal communication system

podcasts · musical notation · audio descriptions · oral communication · sound recordings

symbolic mode

visual representationsprose

Unversified language

spoken words · written language · descriptive writing

abstraction level

visual representationsabstract concepts

Non-physical ideas or notions

raw data · pure mathematics · symbolic logic

Family

visual, visually, visualize, visualizes, visualized, visualizing, visualization, visualizations, visuality

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G