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Diagram vs Method - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between diagram and method

is that diagram is a plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole while method is a process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process).

As a verb diagram

is to represent or indicate something using a diagram.

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.
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  • , 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.
  • method

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process):
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method , and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
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  • A type of theatrical acting wherein the actor utilizes his personal emotions from personal experience to portray a scripted scene.
  • (programming, object-oriented) A subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.
  • (slang) Marijuana.
  • Derived terms

    (A process by which a task is completed) * comparative method * historical method * methodical * methodology * scholarly method * scientific method * Socratic method * philosophical method * convenience method * virtual method