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Chart   /tʃɑrt/   Listen
noun
Chart  n.  
1.
A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
2.
A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
3.
A written deed; a charter.
Globular chart, a chart constructed on a globular projection. See under Globular.
Heliographic chart, a map of the sun with its spots.
Mercator's chart, a chart constructed on the principle of Mercator's projection. See Projection.
Plane chart, a representation of some part of the superficies of the globe, in which its spherical form is disregarded, the meridians being drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude at equal distances.
Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the moon.
Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place or region.



verb
Chart  v. t.  (past & past part. charted)  To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Chart" Quotes from Famous Books



... The chart, figure 351, will illustrate the manner in which the ridge counts are translated into the symbols I and O so they may be grouped and sequenced with the whorl tracings I, ...
— The Science of Fingerprints - Classification and Uses • Federal Bureau of Investigation

... the students of these prophecies have given. The failure of their computations might have been anticipated. It seems to be the plan of God to throw such a vail over even exact dates of prophecy, that their place in a chronological chart of history cannot be accurately marked out beforehand. Either the time from which the reckoning is to proceed, or the symbolism of the dates, or the place which the whole series holds in relation to other prophecies, is left in obscurity. The experience of those ...
— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows

... is indeed so, and the day of the boss and of the slum is drawing to an end. Our faith has felt the new impulse; rather, I should say, it has given it. The social movements, and that which we call politics, are but a reflection of what the people honestly believe, a chart of their aims and aspirations. Charity in our day no longer means alms, but justice. The social settlements are substituting vital touch for the machine charity that reaped a crop of hate and beggary. Charity organization—"conscience born of love" some one has well called it—is ...
— The Battle with the Slum • Jacob A. Riis

... Prentiss answered. "We didn't stay to study it very long. There are no heavy metals on Ragnarok's other sun. Its position in the advance of the resources of any value. We gave Ragnarok a quick survey and when the sixth man died we marked it on the chart as uninhabitable ...
— Space Prison • Tom Godwin

... have the foreman give more detailed information to the men as to what the machine meant and how their efficiencies were obtained and to put the instrument which did the recording into a glass case in the machine room where all the men could see it. Each foreman took a portion of the chart and one of the celluloid scales by which, we obtained the efficiencies and explained in detail to each one of the men how their records were calculated. As a result of this, our efficiency rose from 60 per cent to 80 per cent in less than ...
— Creative Impulse in Industry - A Proposition for Educators • Helen Marot


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