graph
Multiple Entries:graph -graph
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
graph1 /grɑːf, graf/
▶noun
- 1 a diagram showing the relation between variable quantities, typically of two variables measured along a pair of axes at right angles.
- 2 Mathematics a collection of points whose coordinates satisfy a given relation.
– origin C19: abbrev. of graphic formula.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
graph2 /grɑːf, graf/
▶noun Linguistics a visual symbol representing a unit of sound or other feature of speech.
– origin 1930s: from Gk graphē ‘writing’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-graph/ɡrɑːf/
▶combining form
- 1 in nouns denoting something written or drawn in a specified way: autograph.
- 2 in nouns denoting a recording instrument: seismograph.
– origin from Fr. -graphe, based on Gk graphos ‘written, writing’.
'graph' also found in these Oxford entries:
abscissa
- Argand diagram
- bar chart
- bar graph
- bell curve
- characteristic curve
- chart
- continuous
- curve
- error bar
- extrapolate
- gradient
- -graph
- graphic
- -graphic
- graphical
- graph paper
- hodograph
- integral
- knee
- kymograph
- least squares
- line
- linear
- linear equation
- main sequence
- mimeograph
- normal distribution
- ordinate
- peak
- pictograph
- pie chart
- plethysmograph
- plot
- resolve
- scatter diagram
- serigraph
- solidus
- sonogram
- stylograph
- viewgraph
