Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

1. 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.
2. A graph or chart.
3. (category theory) 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".
4. (crosswording) A crossword grid.
5. (transitive) To represent or indicate something using a diagram.
6. (UK) To schedule the operations of a locomotive or train according to a diagram.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• diagrams
• diagramme
• diagramming
• diagraming
• diagrammed
• diagramed

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Use diagram when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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