graph

verb

Definition of graphnext
as in to chart
to show and compare the values of variables in a set of data by means of a drawing They used a computer program to graph monthly rainfall amounts over a period of five years.

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Recent Examples of graph Tapping the card shows more details with your movement score (called Movement Index) graphed over time and total tallies of active minutes and hours. — PCMAG, 24 Jan. 2025 The gap of 131 years between Scientific American’s claim and Ghosh’s assessment opens a rift between enthusiasm and shame that graphs the curve of the petroleum age. — Hazlitt, 21 Aug. 2024 The movie’s silences about money are matched by wider-ranging silences, which concern the other axis—communication—on which the story is graphed. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024 The two of them spent hours trying to graph all the factors—the salary, the stock, the lifestyle, and what Mayer calls the happiness index. — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2012 See All Example Sentences for graph
Recent Examples of Synonyms for graph
  1. chart
  2. compute
  3. estimate
  4. plot
  5. calculate
  6. diagram
  7. outline
  8. trace
Verb
  • Selena Gomez has charted dozens of hits and released multiple bestselling albums throughout her long and successful music career.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • He’s topped the UK Albums chart thrice, taken home a handful of BRIT Awards and sold out venues that seat upwards of 52,000 people.
    — Rachel DeSantis, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Definition of chart
Verb
  • But their work didn’t rule out the possibility of bizarre algorithms that could somehow use the same piece of memory for storage and calculations simultaneously—the computing equivalent of using a page filled with important notes as scratch paper.
    — Ben Brubaker, Wired News, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Put simply, this is a mathematical function that is easy to compute moving forward in time, but extremely difficult to compute in the opposite direction.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of compute
Verb
  • The organization also estimated in 2020 that 20,000 children ages 6 to 17 in Texas either were currently in or were at very high risk for out-of-home or out-of-school placement because of their mental health needs.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The researchers estimated a nearly 20% reduction in dementia diagnosis among those who were, by chance, vaccinated.
    — Christopher M. Worsham, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
Definition of estimate
Verb
  • Less than a month into the job, Trump and the Japanese Prime Minister plotted their response to a North Korean missile launch in the open-air patio of Mar a Lago, photos of which ended up on Facebook.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Charity workers had plotted the heights and weights of Daasanach children on World Health Organization charts—the same ones our pediatrician used to monitor my daughter’s growth—and determined that more than two-thirds of the kids were malnourished.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Definition of plot
Verb
  • Just imagine: estate planners breathing easy, CPAs not chained to their desks for 80 hours a week, and appraisers not calculating business valuations in their sleep.
    — Darren T. Case, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • As of Friday, the Lamont administration had not begun the painful process of calculating what Trump’s assault on economic sense would likely cost.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025
Definition of calculate
Verb
  • Warriors coach Freddie Cintron diagrammed a down-screen to free Serene Exalant, who broke open for a long pass and a layup that clinched the game with time expiring.
    — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Inside the Serbian men’s national basketball team’s locker room at halftime of its semifinal against the United States, three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokić is furiously diagramming a play on a whiteboard.
    — Richard Deitsch, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
Definition of diagram
Verb
  • These handouts reportedly outlined how individuals using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) could be eligible for the Child Tax Credit.
    — Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
  • However, some of the guidelines outlined in the iPLEDGE program were previously overly strict, confusing and non-inclusive.
    — Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
Definition of outline
Verb
  • What To Know Authorities traced the funds to three cryptocurrency wallet addresses, after the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio filed a civil forfeiture complaint in February highlighting the scam.
    — Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The film traces the mothers’ effort leading up to the school’s 2023 opening.
    — Abigail Lee, Variety, 1 Apr. 2025
Definition of trace

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