Chart
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noun


(1)   A map designed to assist navigation by air or sea
(2)   A visual display of information

verb


(3)   Plan in detail
"Bush is charting a course to destroy Saddam Hussein"
(4)   Represent by means of a graph
"Chart the data"
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Etymology


From Greek chartes, Latin carta, chart.
Charte, a sheet of paper to which the Stoic philosophers compared the soul at birth.

Noun


  1. A map for a very particular purpose, such as shipping or aeroplanes/airplanes, showing information useful for that purpose and ignoring most other information.
  2. A subspace of a manifold used as part of an atlas
  3. A graphical presentation of something.

Verb



  1. To draw a chart or map.
  2. To draw or figure out a route or plan.
    "Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there."
  3. (Of a record) To appear on a hit-recording chart.
    "The song has charted for 1500 weeks!"

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