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Graph   /græf/   Listen
noun
Graph  n.  (Math.)
1.
A curve or surface, the locus of a point whose coordinates are the variables in the equation of the locus; as, a graph of the exponential function.
2.
A diagram symbolizing a system of interrelations of variable quantities using points represented by spots, or by lines to represent the relations of continuous variables. More than one set of interrelations may be presented on one graph, in which case the spots or lines are typically distinguishable from each other, as by color, shape, thickness, continuity, etc. A diagram in which relationships between variables are represented by other visual means is sometimes called a graph, as in a bar graph, but may also be called a chart.



suffix
-graph  suff.  A suffix signifying something written (as in digraph), a writing; also, a writer or an instrument that produces a written or visible record of a measurement, such as a spectrograph; as, autograph, crystograph, telegraph, photograph.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Graph" Quotes from Famous Books



... Chalmers' twenty-three Modern History Four students, all made and dated before the assassination. You can refer to them as you please; they're in alphabetical order. And here." He unfolded a sheet of graph paper a yard long and almost as wide. "Here's a tabulated summary of the boys' statements. All agreed on the first point, the fact of the assassination. All agreed that the time was sometime this year. Twenty out of twenty-three agreed on Basra as the place. Why, seven of them even remembered the ...
— The Edge of the Knife • Henry Beam Piper

... [Graph: Per Cent of Water Heating Surface passed over by Gases/Per Cent of the Total Amount of Steam Generated in the Boiler against Temperature in Degrees Fahrenheit of Hot Gases ...
— Steam, Its Generation and Use • Babcock & Wilcox Co.



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