diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ə.ɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.ɡɹæm/
Forms: form: diagrams
form: diagramme
Etymology: From French diagramme, from Italian diagramma, from Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma).
Senses: examples: text: Electrical diagrams show device interconnections.
text: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref: 2012 March 24, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:
glosses: A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
examples: text: A common way to represent change in state over time is via a timing diagram.
ref: 1999, Bruce Powel Douglass, Doing Hard Time: Developing Real-time Systems with UML, Objects, Frameworks, and Patterns, page 520:
text: This particular diagram represents a dinosaur in the distant past and a person who is born in AD 2000. These objects stretch out horizontally in the graph because they last over time in reality, and time is the horizontal axis on the graph
ref: 2010, Susan Schneider, Science Fiction and Philosophy:
text: Various terms for this type of graph seem to be used interchangeably: 'scatter diagram', 'scatter graph' and 'scatter plot'.
ref: 2013, Caroline Rickard, Essential Primary Mathematics, page 215:
text: This powerful visual tool, known as the sawtooth diagram, is used to analyze inventory behavior over time.
ref: 2016, Stephen Cimorelli, Kanban for the Supply Chain, page 29:
text: We can then chart them over time and it results in that kind of a diagram.
ref: 2017, Sherman Wilcox, Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages, page 177:
glosses: A graph or chart.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A functor from an index category to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is J and the codomain is C, then the diagram is said to be "of type J in C".
examples: text: Because you have fewer 10- to 15-letter entries in the diagram, you can make judgment calls more quickly by testing out the long ones at the outset.
ref: 1998 February 11, Michelle Arnot, Crossword Puzzles For Dummies, For Dummies, →ISBN:
text: A crossword puzzle consists of a diagram that usually is rectangular and divided into blank (white) and cancelled (black, shaded, or crosshatched) squares.
ref: 2006 06, Willie Maartens, Mapping Reality: A Critical Perspective on Science and Religion, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 4:
text: If you think of a completed crossword diagram as a house, short words with common letters are the necessary “mortar” that makes the longer, more interesting “brick” words in a puzzle possible.
ref: 2019 January 15, Stanley Newman, The Beginner's Crossword Dictionary: Everything You Need to Know to Start Solving Crosswords with Confidence, Union Square & Co., →ISBN:
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: A crossword grid.
Synonyms: sense: plan or similar to show relationships or similar
word: schematic
word: chart
word: design
word: diagram
word: map
word: graph
word: graphic
word: plan
word: plot
word: scheme
Hypernyms: word: drawing
word: figure
word: image
word: representation
word: sketch
word: visualization
Hyponyms: word: alignment diagram
word: bar chart
word: block diagram
word: blueprint
word: candlestick chart
word: cartogram
word: class diagram
word: concept map
word: data flow diagram
word: dendrogram
word: ER diagram
word: Feynman diagram
word: fishbone diagram
word: floor plan
word: flow chart
word: Gantt chart
word: histogram
word: infographic
word: Ishikawa diagram
word: isobologram
word: knot diagram
word: logic diagram
word: mind map
word: organigram
word: organization chart
word: pie chart
word: phase diagram
word: scatter plot
word: sociogram
word: Venn diagram
word: wiring diagram
Derived terms: alignment diagram
Argand diagram
beach ball diagram
block diagram
circuit diagram
class diagram
concordia diagram
Coxeter diagram
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
Culmann's diagram
data flow diagram
diagram chase
diagram chasing
diagramless
diagrammable
dygogram
Dynkin diagram
entity-relationship diagram
entity relationship diagram
ER diagram
Euler diagram
Ferrers diagram
Feynman diagram
fishbone diagram
flow diagram
force diagram
free body diagram
free-body diagram
Gabbard diagram
Harrod-Johnson diagram
Hasse diagram
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Hovmöller diagram
H-R diagram
HR diagram
Hubble diagram
indicator diagram
Ishikawa diagram
Jones diagram
Kiviat diagram
knot diagram
logic diagram
mass haul diagram
matrix diagram
misdiagram
Mollier diagram
Moody diagram
multidiagram
pairwise linkage disequilibrium diagram
penguin diagram
Penrose diagram
phase diagram
polar area diagram
Pourbaix diagram
pressure volume diagram
PV diagram
QAPF diagram
railroad diagram
Ramachandran diagram
role activity diagram
rose diagram
Sankey diagram
scatter diagram
Schlegel diagram
skew-T log-P diagram
spaghetti diagram
spider diagram
spindle diagram
state diagram
stereodiagram
subdiagram
superdiagram
Tera–Wasserburg diagram
tree diagram
Venn diagram
Voronoi diagram
Wetherill diagram
wiring diagram
Young diagram
Related terms: word: :Category:Visualization