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illustrative
/ɪˈlʌs.tɹə.tɪv/
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What does illustrative mean?
adjective
- Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.
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The illustrative figures on the next page have all been drawn from "templates" whose curves were "switched" in the manner of Fig.
Now in the present case Erskine contended that the examples of the whale and the lady were reciprocally illustrative of each other.
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The many advantages arising from the control of a center-file by the Rooks will be more fully analyzed in the illustrative games.
The rule that the Essay must be "illustrative of the wisdom and beneficence of the Almighty" would confine the subjects to be proposed.
A picture is selected showing a group of individuals and portraying some historical incident or event illustrative of the affairs of every-day life.