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Determine is a related term of diagram.


As verbs the difference between determine and diagram

is that determine is while diagram is to represent or indicate something using a diagram.

As a noun diagram is

a plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.

determine

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Verb

(determin)
  • To set the limits of.
  • * Bible, Acts xvii. 26
  • [God] hath determined the times before appointed.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • The knowledge of men hitherto hath been determined by the view or sight.
  • To ascertain definitely; to figure out.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine . The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
  • To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
  • * J. Edwards
  • The character of the soul is determined by the character of its God.
  • * W. Black
  • something divinely beautiful that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life
  • To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to .
  • Someone else's will determined me to this course.
  • To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide.
  • The court has determined the cause.
  • To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
  • The news of his father's illness determined him to depart immediately.
  • (logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
  • (obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Now, where is he that will not stay so long / Till his friend sickness hath determined me?

    Derived terms

    {{der3, determinant , determination , determiner , determinism , determinist , overdetermine , underdetermine}}

    diagram

    Alternative forms

    * diagramme (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author= , title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= citation , 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.}}
    Electrical diagrams show device interconnections.
  • A graph or chart.
  • (category theory) A functor from an index category'' to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is ''J'' and the codomain is ''C'', then the diagram is said to be "of type ''J'' in ''C ".
  • Synonyms

    * (plan or similar to show relationships or similar) schematic

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * circuit diagram * Ishikawa diagram * logic diagram * (tree diagram) * Venn diagram

    Verb

  • To represent or indicate something using a diagram.