Synonym: example, exemplification, instance, representative. Similar words: illustrate, frustration, registration, demonstration, administration, illusion, disillusion, concentration. Meaning: [‚ɪlə'streɪʃn] 
n. 1. artwork that helps make something clear or attractive 2. showing by example 3. an item of information that is representative of a type 4. a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand.
n. 1. artwork that helps make something clear or attractive 2. showing by example 3. an item of information that is representative of a type 4. a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand. 
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(121) At the resolution available, a single illustration accounts for 6.25 kilobytes of data.
(122) As always, the behaviour of light is a useful source of illustration.
(123) The concentration of ethnic minority women workforce in the garment industry owned by minority businessmen is a good illustration.
(124) Here is a simple illustration of what is at issue.
(125) In the latter illustration consideration has also to be taken of social costs and benefits.
(126) But it was Wolf who succeeded best in the nineteenth century in bringing drama into natural history illustration.
(127) To give definiteness to our ideas let us take an illustration from the woollen trade.
(128) So there was often an element of delusion about zoological illustration.
(129) Walton, using audio clips for illustration[sentencedict.com], describes some popular methods of representing bird song.
(130) Try to find a vivid illustration of your theme to start off your talk.
(131) Paul Zahl in his book Deliver us from Evil gives a graphic illustration of a bush fire sweeping towards two duck hunters.
(132) It indicates the gentlest form of detachment. See for an illustration ex.6 from Donna Anna's first accompanied recitative.
(133) Chemistry in Britain thanks Tripos for the use of the illustration on the cover of this Supplement.
(134) They are beyond and outside what was obligatory book illustration.
(135) Aspects of the revolt gave further illustration of the unreliable loyalty of sections of the armed forces.
(136) The complex and intensive developments in this general field in the 1970s can be seen by taking this panel as an illustration.
(137) The aquatint, as a book illustration,[http://sentencedict.com/illustration.html] was predominant in the period 1790-1830.
(138) These can be used in countless ways, several of which are shown in the illustration.
(139) It is a useful illustration as long as we remember that no illustration is exact.
(140) Book illustration is a field marked by sharp increases in price over the last two decades.
(141) The first illustration shows a request without an authorized password that is rejected by the server.
(142) Here is a simple illustration from the law of tort.
(143) Exhibit 5. 3 provides a simplified illustration of the difference between the two methods.
(144) An illustration of a flow chart is given in Fig. 1.21.
(145) The classic traveling-salesman problem is a good illustration of nodes and connections issues.
(146) The following might be suggested as possibilities for the purpose of illustration.
(147) A few examples of projects which have taken place are described below as an illustration of what can be achieved.
(148) The present cases will, I think, go down in history as the most dramatic illustration of that principle.
(149) It was faultless, like an illustration from a book on heraldry, or an enormous butterfly pinned by a heartless collector.
(150) The appliances made the room look like an illustration from an old issue of Lies' Home Journal.
More similar words: illustrate, frustration, registration, demonstration, administration, illusion, disillusion, concentration, industrialization, industrialisation, transfiguration, frustrate, ratification, gratification, administrative, ration, oration, operation, duration, rational, adoration, migration, justification, aberration, veneration, irrational, liberation, admiration, aspiration, reparation.