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diagram

[dahy-uh-gram]

noun

a figure, usually consisting of a line drawing, made to accompany and illustrate a geometrical theorem, mathematical demonstration, etc.

a drawing or plan that outlines and explains the parts, operation, etc., of something: a diagram of an engine.

a chart, plan, or scheme.

verb (used with object)

to represent by a diagram; make a diagram of.

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Origin:
1610–20; < Latin diagramma < Greek: that which is marked out by lines. See dia-, -gram¹

Related forms

di·a·gram·ma·ble, adjective

mis·di·a·grammed, adjective

un·di·a·gramed, adjective

un·di·a·grammed, adjective

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Use one of the patterns shown in the diagram to make sure that you are covering all of the breast tissue.

Graduation ceremonies vary quite substantially around the world but they tend to have this same underlying diagram.

People in different locations can chat to each other as they look at the same diagram on their screens.

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Use one of the patterns shown in the diagram to make sure that you are covering all of the breast tissue.

Graduation ceremonies vary quite substantially around the world but they tend to have this same underlying diagram.

People in different locations can chat to each other as they look at the same diagram on their screens.

Have students look at this diagram of a right whale, either online or on paper.

For years, the human brain has been compared to a computer-but it is a computer without a wiring diagram.

It is the kind of thing that is easy to diagram but difficult to explain.

As you click on pages, the small diagram at top traces your path through the story.

We are happy to share the table and the diagram with interested readers.

The air is then pumped out and water pressure pushes the pile into the ooze, as shown in the second diagram.

Have students complete a diagram of the life cycle of a butterfly.

These electronic bonds are represented by the dark yellow clouds in the diagram.

The fused vertebrae of an archosaur with a diagram of where they fit on the living animal.

If everything goes right, the team may be the first to create a circuit diagram that explains how mammals see.

The best way to understand this is to use a standard economic diagram of aggregate demand and supply.

They should realize from the diagram that echolocation can help whales find food, navigate, and locate other objects in the ocean.

The diagram shows the effect of each move on the unscrambled numbers.

Each component also has the electrical diagram symbol for that component drawn on it so it can help you read schematics.

Discussions of this point sometimes turn violent, so the diagram below may prove useful.

Answers to such questions make use of the brain s wiring diagram.

Left: diagram of a lithium-ion battery constructed using a nanostructured bicontinuous cathode.

The diagram seems to suggest a platform upon which the turbines ramin upright.

Here is a quick diagram showing the two melons on impact.

Japan could turn out numerate workers able to read a circuit diagram.

The concept even works for visible light, provided in this diagram by a horizontal laser.

The diagram to the right describes the execution flow.

No photograph, diagram or drawing had surfaced that showed what was to happen.

In the block diagrams the studied transect is depicted in the cut-out part of the diagram and honors the data/observations.

Scroll through the slideshow for more images and a diagram of how feet-binding was performed.

Let me draw a force diagram for the sled and for the player.

The anosognosia series concludes with a reconsideration of the lemon-juice bank robber, and a diagram of cluelessness.

Cut the cross braces to length as shown in the diagram and attach them to the posts by drilling holes and driving lag screws.

Here is a diagram showing the wheel while it is spinning.

Thus the first problem provides a diagram showing only three black pieces and a white bishop.

From there, users are taken to a page with a diagram showing how that particular airline arranged the seats on the aircraft.

Occasionally, a clearly drawn diagram explains an idea in less space than words that do the same job.

Moving the mouse into any gallery on the diagram makes the gallery light up.

Here is a diagram of the slate with the cup and butter as viewed from the side.

Many of them can solve numerical problems, but they can't draw a correct free-body diagram to save their lives.

As this diagram shows, the contraption is more of a.

But here is a diagram for a person looking at a small mirror.

Plenty of kids can diagram sentences with alacrity but cannot construct similarly grammatical sentences.

Have students look at a diagram of the solar system.

Feynman diagram is way too general description of quantum world although it had its strength for its time.

Let me go ahead and start with a force diagram for the floating balloon-macbook air system:.

There's some initial set-up involved, which is looking for the part number and diagram in the owner's manual.

Your students can use this diagram to follow the path of the trash and of the smoke.

The zedpower website system diagram shows simple, electrically driven electrolysis.

Ask students to draw a diagram of the role carbon dioxide plays in the global greenhouse.

Click here for a nice diagram that helps illustrate the following text.

The diagram shows evolutionary relationships between humans, pufferfish and other vertebrates.

On your phase diagram for water, it is the little red dot.

Here is a diagram showing the person moving in a straight line after leaving the merry go round.

Then work through the diagram with students, beginning with precipitation.

My crude diagram gives you the idea of the feed of this set-up.

Protons and neutrons are shown as red and blue spheres at the center of this diagram of an atom.

Now, his diagram has become the blueprint for a new era in deep-sea exploration.

Here, let me draw this pseudo circuit diagram for a spinning coil of wire in a magnetic field.

Its akin to putting in the diagram a power source that is cold fusion.

Here is my estimate for the force diagram on the foam.

Here is a diagram of a pumpkin being launched while still in the tube.

If you can't tell from my drawing, this is a diagram looking down on a person.

Scott's simplified diagram of camelid evolution through time.

Duplicating a diagram is a simple, two-tap operation.

Here is a diagram of a water drop at terminal speed.

The screen then displayed a diagram showing which locker would open.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

diagram (ˈdaɪəˌɡræm)

—n
1.	a sketch, outline, or plan demonstrating the form or workings of something
2.	maths a pictorial representation of a quantity or of a relationship: a Venn diagram

—vb , -grams, -gramming, -grammed, -grams, -graming, -gramed
3.	to show in or as if in a diagram

[C17: from Latin diagramma, from Greek, from diagraphein, from graphein to write]

diagrammatic

—*adj*

diagram'matically

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

diagram

1619, from Fr. diagramme, from L. diagramma, from Gk. diagramma (gen. diagrammatos) "that which is marked out by lines," from diagraphein "mark out by lines, delineate," from dia- "across, out" + graphein "write, mark, draw." The verb is 1840, from the noun.

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