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English

Diagram of a magnetron.
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Etymology

From French diagramme, from Italian diagramma, from Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma).

Pronunciation

Noun

diagram (plural diagrams)

  1. A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
    Electrical diagrams show device interconnections.
    • 2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 February 2013, page 106:
      Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
  2. A graph or chart.
    • 1999, Bruce Powel Douglass, Doing Hard Time: Developing Real-time Systems with UML, Objects, Frameworks, and Patterns, page 520:
      A common way to represent change in state over time is via a timing diagram.
    • 2010, Susan Schneider, Science Fiction and Philosophy:
      This particular diagram represents a dinosaur in the distant past and a person who is born in AD 2000. These objects stretch out horizontally in the graph because they last over time in reality, and time is the horizontal axis on the graph
    • 2013, Caroline Rickard, Essential Primary Mathematics, page 215:
      Various terms for this type of graph seem to be used interchangeably: 'scatter diagram', 'scatter graph' and 'scatter plot'.
    • 2016, Stephen Cimorelli, Kanban for the Supply Chain, page 29:
      This powerful visual tool, known as the sawtooth diagram, is used to analyze inventory behavior over time.
    • 2017, Sherman Wilcox, Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages, page 177:
      We can then chart them over time and it results in that kind of a diagram.
  3. (category theory) A functor from an index category to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is J and the codomain is C, then the diagram is said to be "of type J in C".
  4. (crosswording) A crossword grid.
    • 1998 February 11, Michelle Arnot, Crossword Puzzles For Dummies, For Dummies, →ISBN:
      Because you have fewer 10- to 15-letter entries in the diagram, you can make judgment calls more quickly by testing out the long ones at the outset.
    • 2006 06, Willie Maartens, Mapping Reality: A Critical Perspective on Science and Religion, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 4:
      A crossword puzzle consists of a diagram that usually is rectangular and divided into blank (white) and cancelled (black, shaded, or crosshatched) squares.
    • 2019 January 15, Stanley Newman, The Beginner's Crossword Dictionary: Everything You Need to Know to Start Solving Crosswords with Confidence, Union Square & Co., →ISBN:
      If you think of a completed crossword diagram as a house, short words with common letters are the necessary “mortar” that makes the longer, more interesting “brick” words in a puzzle possible.

Synonyms

  • (plan or similar to show relationships or similar): schematic

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Verb

diagram (third-person singular simple present diagrams, present participle diagraming or diagramming, simple past and past participle diagramed or diagrammed)

  1. (transitive) To represent or indicate something using a diagram.
  2. (UK) To schedule the operations of a locomotive or train according to a diagram.
    • 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 131:
      The timing and diagramming staff, too, were on duty for up to 21 hours devising 80 engine, 60 guards' and 25 carriage working diagrams.

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Czech

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Pronunciation

Noun

diagram m inan

  1. diagram

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Danish

Noun

diagram n (singular definite diagrammet, plural indefinite diagrammer)

  1. diagram

Declension

Declension of diagram
neuter
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative diagram diagrammet diagrammer diagrammerne
genitive diagrams diagrammets diagrammers diagrammernes

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French diagramme or English diagram, from Latin diagramma, from Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌdi.aːˈɣrɑm/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: di‧a‧gram
  • Rhymes: -ɑm

Noun

diagram n (plural diagrammen, diminutive diagrammetje n)

  1. diagram

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Descendants

  • Indonesian: diagram

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin diagramma, from Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma).

Pronunciation

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Noun

diagram (plural diagramok)

  1. diagram

Declension

Possessive forms of diagram
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. diagramom diagramjaim
2nd person sing. diagramod diagramjaid
3rd person sing. diagramja diagramjai
1st person plural diagramunk diagramjaink
2nd person plural diagramotok diagramjaitok
3rd person plural diagramjuk diagramjaik

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • diagram in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • diagram in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Indonesian

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Etymology

Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch diagram, from Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di.a.ˈɡram/
  • Rhymes: -ɡram
  • Hyphenation: di‧a‧gram

Noun

diagram (plural diagram-diagram)

  1. diagram:
    1. a plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole
    2. a graph or chart

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma).

Noun

diagram n (definite singular diagrammet, indefinite plural diagram or diagrammer, definite plural diagramma or diagrammene)

  1. diagram

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma).

Noun

diagram n (definite singular diagrammet, indefinite plural diagram, definite plural diagramma)

  1. diagram

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Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

diagram m inan

  1. diagram

Declension

Further reading

  • diagram in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • diagram in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

diagram n

  1. a diagram, a graph, a drawing

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