diagram
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă)
Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma)der.
Italian diagrammader.
French diagrammeder.
English diagram
From French diagramme, from Italian diagramma, from Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma).
Inflected forms:
form: diagrams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: diagramme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: diagrams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: diagramming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: diagraming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: diagrammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: diagrammed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: diagramed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: diagramed
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
form: diagramme
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show the function or operation of something, or to show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
pos: noun
examples: Electrical diagrams show device interconnections.
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.
gloss: A graph or chart.
pos: noun
examples: A common way to represent change in state over time is via a timing diagram.
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
Various terms for this type of graph seem to be used interchangeably: 'scatter diagram', 'scatter graph' and 'scatter plot'.
This powerful visual tool, known as the sawtooth diagram, is used to analyze inventory behavior over time.
We can then chart them over time and it results in that kind of a diagram.
gloss: 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".
pos: noun
gloss: A crossword grid.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
A crossword puzzle consists of a diagram that usually is rectangular and divided into blank (white) and cancelled (black, shaded, or crosshatched) squares.
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.
gloss: To represent or indicate something using a diagram.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To schedule the operations of a locomotive or train according to a diagram.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: The timing and diagramming staff, too, were on duty for up to 21 hours devising 80 engine, 60 guards' and 25 carriage working diagrams.
Synonyms: chart
design
diagram
map
graph
graphic
plan
plot
scheme
Related words: :Category:Visualization
diagrammatic
diagrammatically
Derived words: diagram chase
diagram chasing
diagramless
diagrammable
dygogram
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