Diagram
['daɪəgræm] or ['daɪəɡræm]
Definition
(noun.) a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts.
(verb.) make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed.
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Definition
(n.) A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.
(n.) Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one.
(v. t.) To put into the form of a diagram.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Figure.
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Definition
n. a figure or plan drawn in outline to illustrate any statement: a record traced by an automatic indicator.—adj. Diagrammat′ic.—adv. Diagrammat′ically.—n. Dī′agraph an instrument for enabling unskilled persons to draw objects in outline.—adj. Diagraph′ic.
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Examples
- In this diagram G<1S> and G<2S> represent two generators, each producing current at a potential of 110 volts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A representation of the punched paper for transmitting the word Bain is shown in this diagram. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The diagram, Fig. 12,[1] illustrates the operation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It was a grotesque little diagram of a grotesque little animal, so wicked and so comical, a slow smile came over Gudrun's face, unconsciously. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The annexed diagram shows an arrangement of this kind. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The rhomb was divided into thirty-six equal parts by ten cross lines, and the needles were placed at the points where the lines intersected, as shown in the diagram. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In the diagram only one magnet on each side is represented, _n_ and _s_, to prevent confusion. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The accompanying diagram and explanation may serve to remove the difficulty of understanding why the two circuits are maintained quite distinct. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The accompanying diagram will assist in explaining the arrangement. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In practice, and for measurements of a very delicate nature, the tasimeter is inserted in one arm of a Wheatstone bridge, as shown at A in the diagram (Fig. 2). Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack--even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco--all met my eyes as I glanced round me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He drew diagrams combining an a tom of oxygen with an atom of nitrogen and an atom of aqueous vapor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But the content of this outline that we have drawn here in a few diagrams and charts cannot but touch the imagination. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But this explanation does not account for the failure to use block printing in the case of illustrations and diagrams. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The phonograph is in reality a development of the phonautograph, which was an instrument invented by Leon Scott in 1857 to automatically record sounds by diagrams. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Reference to the following diagrams will elucidate this principle more clearly than words alone can do. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The accompanying diagrams represent sections of a gas meter, as seen in front and edgewise. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The distance of the principal focus from the lens is called the focal length of the lens, and from the diagrams we see that the more convex the lens, the shorter the focal length. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Hideous coloured diagrams of the ravages of hideous diseases decorated the barren buff-coloured walls. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- After the enemy had entered the city, says tradition, he stood absorbed in a mathematical problem which he had diagrammed on the sand. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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