anagraphic

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anagraphic (not comparable)

  1. Falling into well-defined categories that have discrete values which correspond to words or symbols, and that can be applied to anybody.
    • 2013, Francisco Vicente Cipolla-Ficarra, Advanced Research and Trends in New Technologies, Software, Human-Computer Interaction, and Communicability, →ISBN, page 50:
      As secretary a young man with a “mobile identity” since his anagraphic data such as his second surname will change in relation to the linguistic decrees of the birthplace.
    • 2014, Emiliano Ippoliti, Heuristic Reasoning, →ISBN, page 150:
      On the basis on the available data on the 40 experiences the purposes of moving, together with some anagraphic correlates (age, ownership of other cars, etc.) generated 8 functional profiles: e.g. 'from and to airports and stations'; 'shopping in the center'; 'moving on campus'; 'living the night'; ...
    • 2014, Richard L. Harvey, Joel Stein, Carolee J. Winstein, Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation, 2nd Edition, →ISBN:
      Basso (47) has differentiated between neurologic and anagraphic factors, which may serve as indicators of prognosis. ...Anagraphic factors include personal characteristics such as age, sex, handedness, and health status.
  2. Pertaining to the representation of an existing item in words or symbols.
    • 2005, Adrian J. Boas, Crusader Archaeology: The Material Culture of the Latin East, →ISBN, page 183:
      The designs which appear on one or both faces include a cross with four pellets, a gateway, a lion, a mounted knight, a key, a pair of pincers, a hammer, a bridge with a fish below, a fleur-de-lis, an eagle, various heraldic shields, numbers and monograms. Tokens as opposed to coins are almost without exception anagraphic.
    • 2010, Marco Pellitteri, Jean-Marie Bouissou, The Dragon and the Dazzle, →ISBN:
      For anagraphic reasons and because of their disciplinary way of thinking, the first people to examine Japanese serial animation in the early 1980s either used an approach that could be defined as a generational response to the anime phenomenon, or chose to use elements of film theory not entirely fitting the new language introduced by Japanese commercial animagion.
    • 2014, Clemente Marconi, The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, →ISBN:
      On the one hand, the analogy between the image and the text that Hellenistic epigrams so often feature is reinforced; the “anagraphic” aspect of the composition, whose verbal-cum-inscriptional conclusion draws attention to the words' physical shape and form, is also a meterial, surface object, inviting a reading that conforms with the description of the statue supplied by the exegete, all focused on externals ("the boundaries between the stone and scroll are quite permeable and migration across them is easy"; Bing 1998,34).

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