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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bar chart
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Drawing a bar chart Arrange the bars in some sensible order, such as in order of their lengths.
▪ If the retailer wants to find out about sales figures, for example, he may present information as a bar chart.
▪ Immediately the activities and their durations are entered the Gantt bar chart and the end date are displayed.
▪ The bar chart shows Sales on the left and Cost of Sales on the right. 4.
▪ This option allows you to make more sweeping changes - for example you can go from a bar chart to a line chart.
▪ To illustrate this I want to put a bar chart and a table from the spreadsheet in my word-processed document.
Wiktionary
bar chart

n. A graph in the form of boxes of different heights, with each box representing a different value or category of data, and the heights representing frequency.

WordNet
bar chart

n. a chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities [syn: bar graph]

Wikipedia
Bar chart

A bar chart or bar graph is a chart that presents grouped data with rectangular bars with lengths proportional to the values that they represent. The bars can be plotted vertically or horizontally. A vertical bar chart is sometimes called a column bar chart.

A bar graph is a chart that use either horizontal or vertical bars to show comparisons among categories. One axis of the chart shows the specific categories being compared, and the other axis represents a discrete value. Some bar graphs present bars clustered in groups of more than one

Usage examples of "bar chart".

He produced a bar chart, a scrappy series of pillars, uneven in height.

Beside it is a bar chart, the bars peaking and then becoming shorter.