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Graph   /græf/   Listen
noun
Graph  n.  (Math.)
1.
A curve or surface, the locus of a point whose coordinates are the variables in the equation of the locus; as, a graph of the exponential function.
2.
A diagram symbolizing a system of interrelations of variable quantities using points represented by spots, or by lines to represent the relations of continuous variables. More than one set of interrelations may be presented on one graph, in which case the spots or lines are typically distinguishable from each other, as by color, shape, thickness, continuity, etc. A diagram in which relationships between variables are represented by other visual means is sometimes called a graph, as in a bar graph, but may also be called a chart.



suffix
-graph  suff.  A suffix signifying something written (as in digraph), a writing; also, a writer or an instrument that produces a written or visible record of a measurement, such as a spectrograph; as, autograph, crystograph, telegraph, photograph.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Graph" Quotes from Famous Books



... how the current through, the tube will vary as time goes on. It increases and decreases with the frequency of the current in the antenna of the distant transmitting station. We have a picture, or graph, as we say, of how this plate current varies. It will be necessary to study that carefully and to resolve it into its components, that is to separate it into parts, which, added together again will give the whole. To show you what I mean I am going to treat ...
— Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills



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