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Chart vs Calculate - What's the difference?

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Chart is a related term of calculate.


As verbs the difference between chart and calculate

is that chart is to draw a chart or map of while calculate is (mathematics) to determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.

As a noun chart

is a map.

chart

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A map.
  • # A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
  • # A navigator's map.
  • A systematic non-narrative presentation of data.
  • # A tabular presentation of data; a table.
  • #* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=, volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= , title= Pixels or Perish , passage=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.}}
  • # A diagram.
  • # A graph.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
  • , title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
  • # A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
  • # A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
  • A written deed; a charter.
  • (topology) A subspace of a manifold used as part of an atlas
  • Derived terms

    * ancestral chart * bar chart * chart house * chartbook * charted * charticle * chartjunk * chartless * chartometer * chartroom * control chart * eye chart * flipchart * flow chart * music chart * org chart * organization chart * PERT chart * pie chart * psychrometric chart * record chart * spaghetti chart * star chart * step chart * wallchart * weather chart

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw a chart or map of.
  • To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
  • Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.
    We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.
  • To record systematically.
  • (of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.
  • The song has charted for 15 weeks!
    The band first charted in 1994.

    Derived terms

    * chartable * rechart

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    calculate

    English

    Verb

    (calculat)
  • (mathematics) To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
  • (mathematics) To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
  • (intransitive, US, dialect) To plan; to expect; to think.
  • *, chapter=1
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated , might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
  • To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • A cunning man did calculate my birth.
  • To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
  • * Archbishop Tillotson
  • [Religion] is calculated for our benefit.

    Synonyms

    * (determine value of or solution to) compute, reckon (old), work out * (determine values or solutions) compute, reckon (old)

    Derived terms

    * calculating