Crossword clues for plotter
plotter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who plots. 2 (context computing English) an output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens. vb. (alternative form of plouter English)
WordNet
n. a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action [syn: schemer]
a clerk who marks data on a chart [syn: mapper]
a member of a conspiracy [syn: conspirator, coconspirator, machinator]
an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures
Wikipedia
The plotter is a computer printer for printing vector graphics. In the past, plotters were used in applications such as computer-aided design, though they have generally been replaced with wide-format conventional printers. A plotter gives a hard copy of the output. It draws pictures on a paper using a pen. Plotters are used to print designs of ships and machines, plans for buildings and so on.
A plotter is a vector graphics printing device to print graphical plots.
Plotter may also refer to:
- Plotter (instrument), an instrument that marks positions on a map or chart
- Plotter (RAF), a person who records the movement of military aircraft in an Operations Room
- Navigator, a person who marks positions on a map or chart
In navigational instruments, a plotter is an instrument which marks the position of a vehicle on a map or chart.
Plotters were employed on an early form of air traffic monitoring that played a vital role in World War II, particularly during the Battle of Britain, The Blitz and the bombing of British cities that followed. They worked at individual RAF stations' Sector Control Rooms or in the central Group Control Rooms that directed the operations of RAF fighters. The majority of plotters were female, members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAFs).
Usage examples of "plotter".
I thanked her tenderly for the proof she had given me of her attachment, and said that I had been arrested by a plot for which I would make the plotters pay dear.
Had Kelk been the plotter, he would not have used two methods simultaneously.
EL DORADO by Baroness Orczy FOREWORD There has of late years crept so much confusion into the mind of the student as well as of the general reader as to the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel with that of the Gascon Royalist plotter known to history as the Baron de Batz, that the time seems opportune for setting all doubts on that subject at rest.
Guzman Bento, usually full of fanciful fears and brooding suspicions, had sudden accesses of unreasonable self-confidence when he perceived himself elevated on a pinnacle of power and safety beyond the reach of mere mortal plotters.
We know him to be disaffected, a nonjuror, and a plotter of a dark and intriguing character.
Finally, back in Amman from Boston, Hijazi gradually accumulated bomb-making materials, including sulfuric acid and 5,200 pounds of nitric acid, which were then stored in an enormous subbasement dug by the plotters over a period of two months underneath a rented house.
Next to that was a mug shot of the blind Shaikh and the Day of Terror plotters.
The control room began to get crowded as watch standers filled the room for battle stations The geo plot that had been manned by Tarkowski was now taken over by two plotters and an officer.
He arranged communication and transportation for the ricin plotters, and he recruited the crew manning the Exo scout.
Many of the stalwart sons of Canada were temporarily residing in the United States at these times, and had exceptional opportunities of noticing the constant preparations that were being made by the Fenian plotters to invade the land of their birth.
In the midst of the lesson the real Basilio comes to meet his appointment, and there is a moment of confusion for the plotters, out of which Figaro extricates them by persuading Basilio that he is sick of a raging fever, and must go instantly home, Almaviva adding a convincing argument in the shape of a generously lined purse.
Here is an instance in point: The plotters have been working a little at cross-purposes, each seeking his own advantages, and their plans are about to be put to the test when Figaro temporarily loses confidence in the honesty of Susanna.
But why then did the plotters not seize the Gestapo headquarters in the Prinz Albrechtstrasse and not only suppress the secret police but liberate a number of their fellow conspirators, including Leber, who were incarcerated there?
To demonstrate her impeccable Jacobinism, Charlotte, in response to his request to name the plotters, recited a comprehensive list.
I am mistaken, many more mean to follow, Marais and Retief and that plotter, Pereira, among them.