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Diagram   /dˈaɪəgrˌæm/   Listen
Diagram

noun
1.
A drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts.
verb
1.
Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed.  Synonym: plot.



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"Diagram" Quotes from Famous Books



... I next turned to Armstadt's book shelves. My attention was caught by a ponderous volume. It proved to be an atlas and directory of Berlin. In the front of this was a most revealing diagram which showed Berlin to be a city of sixty levels. The five lowest levels were underground and all were labelled "Mineral Industries." Above these were eight levels of Food, Clothing and Miscellaneous industries. Then came the ...
— City of Endless Night • Milo Hastings

... would know what the interior of a gypsy van, or "drag," or wardo, is like, he may see it in the following diagram. ...
— The Gypsies • Charles G. Leland

... it, when it is brilliant again. The candle alone shines by itself, and for itself, or for those who have arranged the materials. Now, let us look a little at the form of the flame as you see it under the glass shade. It is steady and equal; and its general form is that which is represented in the diagram, varying with atmospheric disturbances, and also varying according to the size of the candle. It is a bright oblong—brighter at the top than towards the bottom—with the wick in the middle, and besides the wick in the middle, certain darker parts towards ...
— The Chemical History Of A Candle • Michael Faraday

... demands that the upper margin of a printed page or a framed engraving shall be narrower than the lower, but here the kinship of page to picture ceases. The picture is seen alone, but the printed page is one of a pair and makes with its mate a double diagram. This consists of two panels of black set between two outer columns of white and separated by a column of white. Now if the outer and inner margins of a page are equal, the inner column of the ...
— The Booklover and His Books • Harry Lyman Koopman

... of doctrinal teachings are found during Brigham Young's reign in Utah. In the way of a curiosity the following diagram and its explanation, by Orson Hyde, may be reproduced from the Millennial Star, Vol. IX, ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn


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