GRAPH
\ɡɹˈaf], \ɡɹˈaf], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈa_f]\
Definitions of GRAPH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
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A curve or surface, the locus of a point whose coordinates are the variables in the equation of the locus.
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A diagram symbolizing a system of interrelations by spots, all distinguishable from one another and some connected by lines of the same kind.
By Oddity Software
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A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
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A curve or surface, the locus of a point whose coordinates are the variables in the equation of the locus.
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A diagram symbolizing a system of interrelations by spots, all distinguishable from one another and some connected by lines of the same kind.
By Noah Webster.
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graf, n. a representation by means of lines, exhibiting the nature of the law according to which some phenomena vary: -graph is used as a terminal in many Greek compounds to denote an agent which writes, &c., as telegraph, seismograph, or the thing written, as in autograph, &c.--adjs. GRAPH'IC, -AL, pertaining to writing, describing, or delineating: picturesquely described: vivid.--adv. GRAPH'ICALLY.--ns. GRAPH'ICNESS; GRAPHIOL'OGY, the science or art of writing or delineating, or a treatise thereon; GRAPH'IS, a genus of lichens, remarkable for the resemblance which the fructification assumes to the forms of the letters of Oriental alphabets; GRAPH'[=I]TE, a mineral, commonly called blacklead or plumbago (though containing no lead), largely used in making pencils.--adj. GRAPHIT'IC.--ns. GRAPH'IUM, a stylus; GRAPHOL'OGY, the science of estimating character, &c., from handwriting.--GRAPHIC ARTS, painting, drawing, engraving, as opposed to music, sculpture, &c.; GRAPHIC GRANITE, a variety of granite with markings like Hebrew characters. [Gr. graph[=e], a writing--graphein, to write.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Sir Augustus Henry
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