Plotting and Chart
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Plot.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- A visual display of information.
- A map designed to assist navigation by air or sea.
verb
- Make a chart of.
- usage: "chart the territory"
- Plan in detail.
- usage: "Bush is charting a course to destroy Saddam Hussein"
- Represent by means of a graph.
- usage: "chart the data"
- synonyms: graph
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A sheet of paper, pasteboard or the like, on which information is exhibited, especially when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
- (n.) A written deed; a charter.
- (v.t.) To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.
- (n.) A map; especially, a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary