graph

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: graphical recordchart

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axesSynonyms: graphical record

Verb (2)

  1. represent by means of a graph“chart the data”Synonyms: chart
  2. plot upon a graph
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

-graph \-graph\ (-gr[.a]f) [From Gr. gra`fein to write. See Graphic.] 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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Graph \Graph\ (gr[.a]f), n. [See -graph.] (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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

graph

1.<mathematics> A collection of nodes and edges.

See also connected graph, degree, directed graph, Moore bound, regular graph, tree.

2.<graphics> A visual representation of algebraic equations or data.

(1996-09-22)

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