Noun

(en noun)

The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

* Alexander Pope

If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.

An area or land used for building on or planting on.

A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.

A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.

The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.

The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot .

* Shakespeare

I have overheard a plot of death.

* Addison

O, think what anxious moments pass between / The birth of plots and their last fatal periods!

Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

* Denham

a man of much plot

Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

* Milton

And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.

A plan; a purpose.

* Jeremy Taylor

no other plot in their religion but serve God and save their souls

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.

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# A diagram.

# A graph.

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# 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