diagram
/ˈdaɪ.ə.ɡɹæm/
diagram noun: a plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show the function or operation of something, or to show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
Noun
diagram (plural diagrams)
- A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show the function or operation of something, or to show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
- Electrical diagrams show device interconnections.
- 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...2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106
- A graph or chart.
- A common way to represent change in state over time is via a timing diagram.1999, Bruce Powel Douglass, Doing Hard Time: Developing Real-time Systems with UML, Objects, Frameworks, and Patterns, page 520
- 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 graph2010, Susan Schneider, Science Fiction and Philosophy
- 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".
- A crossword grid.
- 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.1998 February 11, Michelle Arnot, Crossword Puzzles For Dummies, For Dummies, →ISBN
- A crossword puzzle consists of a diagram that usually is rectangular and divided into blank (white) and cancelled (black, shaded, or crosshatched) squares.2006 06, Willie Maartens, Mapping Reality: A Critical Perspective on Science and Religion, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 4
Verb
diagram (third-person singular simple present diagrams, present participle diagramming or (rare) diagraming, simple past and past participle diagrammed or (rare) diagramed)
- To represent or indicate something using a diagram.
- To schedule the operations of a locomotive or train according to a diagram.
- The timing and diagramming staff, too, were on duty for up to 21 hours devising 80 engine, 60 guards' and 25 carriage working diagrams.1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 131
diagram meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
diagram in Hindi
- plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show workings or parts relationships
- आलेख ālekh, मापचित्र māpcitra
- graph or chart
- आरेख ārekh, आलेख ālekh, ख़ाका xākā, लेखाचित्र lekhācitra
diagram in Tamil
- வரிப்படம், வரைபடம், விளக்க வரைபடம், விளக்கப்படம்
diagram in Marathi
- plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show workings or parts relationships
- आकृती ākŕtī
diagram in Urdu
- graph or chart
- رَسْمَہ rasma, خَاکَہ xāka, شَکْل śakl
More languagesFewer languages
- diagram in Bengali
- রেখাচিত্র rekhacitro
- diagram in Malayalam
- രേഖം, രേഖാചിത്രം, രൂപരേഖ, പടം
- diagram in Kannada
- ನಕ್ಷೆ nakṣe
- diagram in Assamese
- ছবি sobi
- diagram in Tagalog
- guhitin
- diagram in Arabic
- مُخَطَط muḵaṭaṭ, رَسْم إِيضَاحِيّ rasm ʔīḍāḥiyy, رَسْم بَيَانِيّ rasm bayāniyy, خِطَّة ḵiṭṭa
- diagram in Malay
- rajah, gambarajah
- diagram in Indonesian
- diagram
- diagram in Persian
- شِما šemâ, نِمودار nemudâr, دایِگْرَم dâyegram
- diagram in Thai
- ไดอะแกรม dai-à-grɛm, แผนผัง pɛ̌ɛn-pǎng, ผัง pǎng, แผนภาพ pɛ̌ɛn-pâap
- diagram in Vietnamese
- giản đồ, biểu đồ, đồ biểu
Examples of diagram in a sentence
- Various terms for this type of graph seem to be used interchangeably: 'scatter diagram', 'scatter graph' and 'scatter plot'.2013, Caroline Rickard, Essential Primary Mathematics, page 215:
- This powerful visual tool, known as the sawtooth diagram, is used to analyze inventory behavior over time.2016, Stephen Cimorelli, Kanban for the Supply Chain, page 29:
- We can then chart them over time and it results in that kind of a diagram.2017, Sherman Wilcox, Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages, page 177:
- 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.2019 January 15, Stanley Newman, The Beginner's Crossword Dictionary: Everything You Need to Know to Start Solving Crosswords with...
Synonyms of diagram
Forms of diagram
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | diagrams |
| alternative form (archaic) | diagramme |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | diagrams |
| present participle | diagramming |
| past participle | diagrammed |
| past | diagrammed |
| present participle (rare) | diagraming |
| past participle (rare) | diagramed |
| past (rare) | diagramed |
Origin of diagram
From French diagramme, from Italian diagramma, from Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma).
Words formed from diagram
Phrases with diagram
- ER diagram
- HR diagram
- PV diagram
- bar diagram
- H-R diagram
- flow diagram
- knot diagram
- QAPF diagram
- rose diagram
- tree diagram
- Venn diagram
- block diagram
61 more phrasesFewer phrases
- class diagram
- Euler diagram
- force diagram
- Hasse diagram
- Jones diagram
- logic diagram
- Moody diagram
- phase diagram
- state diagram
- Young diagram
- Argand diagram
- diagram chases
- Dynkin diagram
- Hubble diagram
- Kiviat diagram
- matrix diagram
- Sankey diagram
- spider diagram
- wiring diagram
- circuit diagram
- Coxeter diagram
- Ferrers diagram
- Feynman diagram
- Gabbard diagram
- Mollier diagram
- penguin diagram
- Penrose diagram
- scatter diagram
- spindle diagram
- Voronoi diagram
- fishbone diagram
- Ishikawa diagram
- Pourbaix diagram
- railroad diagram
- Schlegel diagram
- alignment diagram
- concordia diagram
- Culmann's diagram
- data flow diagram
- free body diagram
- free-body diagram
- Hovmöller diagram
- indicator diagram
- mass haul diagram
- Minkowski diagram
- spaghetti diagram
- Wetherill diagram
- beach ball diagram
- polar area diagram
- Ramachandran diagram
- skew-T log-P diagram
- role activity diagram
- Carter-Penrose diagram
- Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
- Harrod-Johnson diagram
- pressure volume diagram
- Tera–Wasserburg diagram
- entity relationship diagram
- entity-relationship diagram
- Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- pairwise linkage disequilibrium diagram
Questions about diagram
- What does diagram mean?
- Diagram means a plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show the function or operation of something, or to show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
- What is diagram in Hindi?
- Diagram in Hindi is आलेख (ālekh), मापचित्र (māpcitra), आरेख (ārekh). See Diagram meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use diagram in a sentence?
- Various terms for this type of graph seem to be used interchangeably: 'scatter diagram', 'scatter graph' and 'scatter plot'.
- What part of speech is diagram?
- Diagram can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce diagram?
- Diagram is pronounced /ˈdaɪ.ə.ɡɹæm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of diagram?
- The plural of diagram is diagrams.
Words near diagram in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: diagram (page history and authors); diagram (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); diagram (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ನಕ್ಷೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ছবি (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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