| 单词 | graph |
| 释义 | graph (once / 5467 pages) nv A graph is a visual plotting of the relationship between two or more quantities, like a math map. To graph is to create such a chart. The noun graph came into use in the 1800s, when people got tired of saying graphic formula and decided to chop it down. A hundred years later, the verb form of graph was first recorded. Diagram and linear representation are two synonyms for the word. The dancer Martha Graham said, “Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.” Here, she uses graph to say that dance is a visual representation of what’s in the heart. WORD FAMILYgraph: graphed, graphical, graphing, graphs USAGE EXAMPLESDid the experiments in the second graph need to be repeated? The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) He learned “that I wake up in the middle of the night, which showed up on the graph on my phone,” he said. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Pie charts and revenue graphs flashed on a big screen. New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) 1n a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes Syn|Hypo|Hyper graphical record seismogram the graphical record of an earth tremor made by using a seismograph characterisic function, characteristic curve(electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters ballistocardiograma graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph echoencephalograma graphical image of the brain produced by an echoencephalograph echocardiograma graphical image of the heart produced by an echocardiograph ECG, EKG, cardiogram, electrocardiograma graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph EEG, electroencephalogram, encephalograma graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph electroretinograma graphical recording of the electrical activity of the retina that results when light is flashed into the eye Laffer curvea graph purporting to show the relation between tax rates and government income; income increases as tax rates increase up to an optimum beyond which income declines learning curvea graph showing the rate of learning (especially a graph showing the amount recalled as a function of the number of attempts to recall) myograma graphical recording of muscle activity pattern, radiation diagram, radiation patterngraphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle tachograma graphical record of speed and distance produced by a tachograph thermograma graphical record produced by a thermograph exponential curvea graph of an exponential function frequency-response characteristic, frequency-response curve(electronics) a graph of frequency response with signal amplitude or gain plotted against frequency EMG, electromyograma graphical record of electric currents associated with muscle contractions visual communication communication that relies on vision 2v represent by means of a graph Syn|Hyper chart interpret, represent create an image or likeness of 3v plot upon a graph Hyper diagram, plot make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed |
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