The relationship between two related parameters of a device, typically input and output; a graphical representation of this. Cf. characteristic curve…

(a) Electronics a graph showing the relationship between two related parameters of a device, esp. current and voltage; (b) Photography a graph…

a graph in which one of the axes represents time; a variation with time.

a graph showing how emitted energy, or perceived brightness, varies with wavelength.

= hysteresis loop n.

a graph showing how the value of some property of a system exhibiting hysteresis varies as the factor causing it is varied from one value to another…

attributive designating a relation between time and distance, esp. as expressed in a graph.

A line or surface in a binary or ternary phase diagram respectively, or a temperature (corresponding to a point on the line or surface), below…

Engineering. A graph showing power as a function of some other variable; spec. a graph of the power output of a vehicle or aircraft against engine…

(a) n. the logarithm of the logarithm (of a number); also attributive, indicating or involving such quantities; (b) adj. (usually hyphenated)…

= Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, n.

a curve showing the rate, circumstances, etc. of creep (sense 9).

Statistics. A graphical representation of the power function of a statistical test.

A graph on which stars (esp. those in a galaxy or cluster) are plotted according to their brightness and spectral type, typically with decreasing…

A graph having ten vertices and fifteen lines, which may be drawn as a pentagram within a pentagon, each vertex of the latter being joined by a line…

a graph of a utility function.

Mathematics. A set of points each of which is joined to every other point by a line having a direction. Also tournament graph.

Mathematics and in computer graphics: a point, curve, or surface lying a fixed distance from some other point, curve, or surface. Cf. offset curve n.…