graph
Other forms: graphs; graphed; graphing
A graph is a visual plotting of the relationship between two or more quantities, like a math map. To graph is to create such a chart.
The noun graph came into use in the 1800s, when people got tired of saying graphic formula and decided to chop it down. A hundred years later, the verb form of graph was first recorded. Diagram and linear representation are two synonyms for the word. The dancer Martha Graham said, “Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.” Here, she uses graph to say that dance is a visual representation of what’s in the heart.
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a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axessynonyms: graphical recordtypes:seismogramthe graphical record of an earth tremor made by using a seismographcharacterisic function, characteristic curve(electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parametersballistocardiograma graphical recording made by a ballistocardiographechoencephalograma graphical image of the brain produced by an echoencephalographechocardiograma graphical image of the heart produced by an echocardiographECG, EKG, cardiogram, electrocardiograma graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiographEEG, electroencephalogram, encephalograma graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalographelectroretinograma graphical recording of the electrical activity of the retina that results when light is flashed into the eyeLaffer curvea graph purporting to show the relation between tax rates and government income; income increases as tax rates increase up to an optimum beyond which income declineslearning curvea graph showing the rate of learning (especially a graph showing the amount recalled as a function of the number of attempts to recall)myograma graphical recording of muscle activitypattern, radiation diagram, radiation patterngraphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angletachograma graphical record of speed and distance produced by a tachographthermograma graphical record produced by a thermographexponential curvea graph of an exponential functionfrequency-response characteristic, frequency-response curve(electronics) a graph of frequency response with signal amplitude or gain plotted against frequencytype of:visual communicationcommunication that relies on vision
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represent by means of a graph
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plot upon a graph
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