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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
graph
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bar graph
graph paper
plotted...graph
▪ We plotted a graph to show the increase in sales figures this year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
directed
▪ A search space is a labelled directed graph.
▪ Next, we come to the notion of a directed graph, sometimes called a digraph.
■ NOUN
bar
▪ This can be done on an annual basis with a bar graph which reveals the annual growth rate.
▪ The output was a bar graph to show how much the new input resembled each of the ten people.
▪ Breathing rhythm was established by the movement of a bar graph displayed on the computer screen.
▪ Underneath the bar graph are listed the inbred mouse strains or transgenics from which the analysis was made.
▪ The following bar graphs or charts show how the information can be broken down and looked at more closely.
▪ A bar graph shows present depth and maximum depth reached.
▪ About how much of every £100 is spent on each item shown in the divided bar graph?
▪ After each set of lessons bar graphs can be generated to illustrate the progress made.
line
▪ They can be represented vertically, horizontally or be combined with line graphs.
▪ Typically these will include bar charts, pie charts and line graphs although numerous other types can be prepared.
▪ The major advantage of the line graph is that it is easy to analyse the relationship between variables.
▪ In order to construct a line graph, at least two sets of tabulated data are required.
paper
▪ Special types of graph paper can be useful in different circumstances.
▪ This consisted of drawing on graph paper ten figures of slightly varying geometric size, made up of squares.
▪ Probability graph paper exists to show the extent to which a distribution deviates from the Gaussian shape.
▪ It is best to work out a pattern in advance and draw it out on same graph paper.
▪ It takes a bit of time to learn to use these more specialized sorts of graph paper but it is worth the effort.
▪ This permitted the use of arithmetic graph papers for plotting.
▪ Sitting down with a slip of graph paper and jotting down a few ideas will help, you make sense of your thoughts.
▪ Use the half pattern below and enlarge it on dressmaker's graph paper.
word
▪ Paths could then be continued from all new short words that are stored on the word graph. 7.3.1.
■ VERB
draw
▪ He should draw a graph of the increasing pressure upon his work.
▪ This consisted of drawing on graph paper ten figures of slightly varying geometric size, made up of squares.
▪ If it is thin enough you will be able to trace the outlines of a plot originally drawn on graph paper.
▪ Q I've been using Lotus 1-2-3 to draw various graphs from the data I collect each week.
▪ When scientists draw graphs they typically plot a scattering of points which show some pattern.
plot
▪ The results can be plotted in a graph, like the one below.
▪ True, the global figures advanced by Soviet historians to plot the graph of peasant disorders leave much to be desired.
▪ This data is plotted on the graph and a line is drawn to link the points.
see
▪ With any luck, you should see a graph of the data appear.
▪ It can be seen that the graph slopes up and although an exact relationship does not exist, a systematic ones does.
▪ The scatter seen on the graph is the normal biological variability of plant material.
▪ You will see from the graphs below that our turnover and pre-tax profit figures reached record levels last year.
show
▪ This shows a graph G which is actually a tree, and its cover G-.
▪ To demonstrate this astonishing finding, she showed me a graph she and Swetnarn had prepared.
▪ Statistics have come to convey three rather different ideas: 1 numerical facts and figures, often shown as charts and graphs.
use
▪ As to the arrangement of the motif, for a full-length version use the stalk-extension graph before starting the main graph.
▪ For a shorter version, just use the main graph.
▪ The fundamental selectivity issue which can occur when graphing financial information is the basis of deciding whether or not to use graphs.
▪ We checked the assumption of proportionality by using graphs of the log-log survivor function.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The graph on page 6 shows population growth over the past 50 years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Allow the graph to dry overnight before hanging it up.
▪ How many graphs and charts will viewers look at?
▪ If you do not get a satisfactory graph, try resetting the graph settings to the default.
▪ Other products are treated in the same way, building up a graph of the aggregate sales of existing products.
▪ The oscilloscope graph of both voices was flattened in the lower register: tension was restricting the movement of their vocal chords.
▪ This may be in the form of a report containing written evidence, diagrams or graphs as appropriate.
▪ Together, the graphs sum up what happened during the intervening eighty years.
▪ We can map out our budget and time performance on a graph.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graph

Graph \Graph\ (gr[.a]f), n. [See -graph.] (Math.)

  1. A curve or surface, the locus of a point whose co["o]rdinates 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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
graph

1878, shortening of graphic formula (see graphic). The verb meaning "charted on a graph" is from 1889. Related: Graphed; graphing.

Wiktionary
graph

n. A diagram displaying data; in particular one showing the relationship between two or more quantity, measurements or indicative numbers that may or may not have a specific mathematical formula relating them to each other. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To draw a graph. 2 (context transitive mathematics English) To draw a graph of a function.

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WordNet
graph

n. a drawing illustrating the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes [syn: graphical record]

graph

  1. v. represent by means of a graph; "chart the data" [syn: chart]

  2. plot upon a graph

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Wikipedia
Graph

Graph may refer to:

Graph (discrete mathematics)

In mathematics, and more specifically in graph theory, a graph is a representation of a set of objects where some pairs of objects are connected by links. The interconnected objects are represented by mathematical abstractions called vertices (also called nodes or points), and the links that connect some pairs of vertices are called edges (also called arcs or lines). Typically, a graph is depicted in diagrammatic form as a set of dots for the vertices, joined by lines or curves for the edges. Graphs are one of the objects of study in discrete mathematics.

The edges may be directed or undirected. For example, if the vertices represent people at a party, and there is an edge between two people if they shake hands, then this is an undirected graph, because if person A shook hands with person B, then person B also shook hands with person A. In contrast, if there is an edge from person A to person B when person A knows of person B, then this graph is directed, because knowledge of someone is not necessarily a symmetric relation (that is, one person knowing another person does not necessarily imply the reverse; for example, many fans may know of a celebrity, but the celebrity is unlikely to know of all their fans). The former type of graph is called an undirected graph and the edges are called undirected edges while the latter type of graph is called a directed graph and the edges are called directed edges.

Graphs are the basic subject studied by graph theory. The word "graph" was first used in this sense by J. J. Sylvester in 1878.See:

  • J. J. Sylvester (February 7, 1878) "Chemistry and algebra," Nature, 17 : 284. From page 284: "Every invariant and covariant thus becomes expressible by a graph precisely identical with a Kekuléan diagram or chemicograph."
  • J. J. Sylvester (1878) "On an application of the new atomic theory to the graphical representation of the invariants and covariants of binary quantics, — with three appendices," American Journal of Mathematics, Pure and Applied, 1 (1) : 64-90. The term "graph" first appears in this paper on page 65.
Graph (abstract data type)

In computer science, a graph is an abstract data type that is meant to implement the undirected graph and directed graph concepts from mathematics.

A graph data structure consists of a finite (and possibly mutable) set of vertices or nodes or points, together with a set of unordered pairs of these vertices for an undirected graph or a set of ordered pairs for a directed graph. These pairs are known as edges, arcs, or lines for an undirected graph and as arrows, directed edges, directed arcs, or directed lines for a directed graph. The vertices may be part of the graph structure, or may be external entities represented by integer indices or references.

A graph data structure may also associate to each edge some edge value, such as a symbolic label or a numeric attribute (cost, capacity, length, etc.).

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Usage examples of "graph".

She paced restlessly while he worked at making a graph with time as the abscissa and the code numbers for ordinates.

He turned to the toxicology section, which had graphs of the results of the gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy of blood, cerebrospinal fiuid, and urine.

He graphed the sleep and body temperature cycles together in a two-dimensional format called a raster plot.

His motive most likely would have to be traced to one of those impulses so close to the electrochemical essence of things that microwires in bundles would have to be sunk into the skull and the basis for his action reduced to an investigation of neural events, or oscillating shapes on graph paper.

The professor was now showing graphs of enzymatic action, black squiggly lines on white.

Then he sits bolt upright, unmoving except for the lips, making perfect sense in a monotonous voice, reciting the successive graph plots on a Fibonacci curve, as he and his ship, trailing vertical smoke, are pulled by ropes out of the light into the darkness at the back of the stage.

Dragon on steel tables were a Geiger counter, a radiation graph that drew a red line on rolling paper, and a neutron sealer that measured radiation with a bank of six red lights.

Welch came back in triumph, trailing two sheets of graphing tissue like victory streamers.

Every generation it gets a little harder to find apprentices whose graphs are close enough.

The basic structure of the two diatom graphs was the same -- a perfect Bernaud diagram.

However, your graphs show an onset of Incidents, broken off just as they begin.

Stifling his own dislike of such an unwarranted invasion of privacy, op Owen glanced at the two graphs, needles reacting wildly in response to the sexual stimuli mutually enjoyed.

Incident on the graphs, Les, even Gillings must admit to our innocence.

Even a patch of near-vacuum in the middle of interstellar space owed its near-Euclidean geometry to the fact that it was an elaborate superposition of a multitude of graphs, each one riddled with virtual particles.

And every measure of time, from planetary orbits to the vibrations of nuclei, could ultimately be rephrased as a count of the changes between the graphs describing space at two different moments.