Chart
WordNet
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
- A map for a very particular purpose, such as shipping or aeroplanes/airplanes, showing information useful for that purpose and ignoring most other information.
- A subspace of a manifold used as part of an atlas
- A graphical presentation of something.
Verb
- To draw a chart or map.
- To draw or figure out a route or plan.
- "Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there."
- (Of a record) To appear on a hit-recording chart.
- "The song has charted for 1500 weeks!"
Related terms
- cartography
- cartoon
- chart house
- charter
- Magna Carta