Technically speaking, an image created by drawing lines from point to point on a Cartesian grid. The term has been corrupted to mean computer graphics, and graphics are now often referred to as vector graphics.

Graph"ics (?), n.

The art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the like.

 

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