bar graph

noun
a graph using parallel bars of varying lengths, as to illustrate comparative costs, exports, birth-rates, etc.
Also called bar chart.


Origin:
1920–25

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bar graph
 
n
bar chart, Also called: bar diagram a graph consisting of vertical or horizontal bars whose lengths are proportional to amounts or quantities

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Bar graph is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
Example sentences
Choose whether you want to make a bar graph, line graph, or pictograph.
The gray sections of the bar graph represent coyotes.
Students can make a bar graph to accompany the map naming the exploited regions
  involved and their approximate acreage.
Be sure all elements of a bar graph are included in each student's copy.
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