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Chart vs Triangulation - What's the difference?

chart | triangulation |

As nouns the difference between chart and triangulation

is that chart is a map while triangulation is (uncountable) a technique in surveying in which distances and directions are estimated from an accurately measured baseline and the principles of trigonometry.

As a verb chart

is to draw a chart or map of.

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

    Related terms

    * card * cartography * cartoon * cartouche * charter * Chartist * Magna Carta

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    triangulation

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A technique in surveying in which distances and directions are estimated from an accurately measured baseline and the principles of trigonometry
  • (countable) The network of triangles, so obtained, that are the basis of a map or chart
  • (uncountable) In navigation or seismology, a process by which an unknown location is found using three known distances from known locations.
  • (chess) A delaying move in which the king moves in a triangular path in order to force the advance of a pawn.
  • (qualitative research) The use of three (or more) researchers to interview the same people or to evaluate the same evidence to reduce the impact of individual bias.
  • * 2003 , Nahid Golafshani, Understanding Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research'' (in ''The Qualitative Report Volume 8 Number 4 December 2003 597-607) [http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR8-4/golafshani.pdf]
    • Triangulation was established by asking researcher
  • 2 and researcher #4 to conduct their own interview of the participant.

    • Related terms

    * triangulate