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graph | atlas |

As a noun graph

is graph or graph can be a symbol as the smallest unit in a text which has not yet been classified as a grapheme.

As a proper noun atlas is

(greek god) son of iapetus and clymene, war leader of the titans ordered by the god zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to hesperides, the hyades, and the pleiades; king of the legendary atlantis.

graph

English

(wikipedia graph)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A diagram displaying data; in particular one showing the relationship between two or more quantities, measurements or indicative numbers that may or may not have a specific mathematical formula relating them to each other.
  • * {{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.}}
  • (mathematics) A diagram displaying data, in particular one showing the relationship between two or more variables; specifically, for a function f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n), the set of all tuples (x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n, f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n)).
  • (graph theory) An ordered pair (V,E), where V is a set of elements called vertices'' (or ''nodes'') and E is a set of pairs of elements of V, called ''edges ; informally, a set of vertices together with a set edges that join these vertices.
  • (lb) A character, in particular the abstracted fundamental shape of a character as distinct from its ductus (realization in a particular typeface or handwriting: compare glyph).

    • Synonyms

    * (in graph theory) undirected graph * See also

    Hyponyms

    * (in graph theory) tree

    Derived terms

    * acyclic graph * biased graph * biconnected graph * bipartite graph * complete graph * connected graph * directed graph * Eulerian graph * graph articulation * graph centre * graph eccentricity * graph eigenvalue * graph geodesic * graph minor * graph polynomial * graph spectrum * graph thickness * graphic matroid * graphoid * Hamiltonian graph * hypergraph * line graph * multigraph * object graph * Petersen graph * planar graph * pseudograph * random graph * regular graph * signed graph * small world graph * strongly regular graph * subgraph * superregular graph * undirected graph * unicursal graph * voltage graph * weighted graph

    Related terms

    * graphic * graphical * graphism

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw a graph.
  • (mathematics) To draw a graph of a function.

    • Synonyms

    * (draw a graph of) plot, chart

    See also

    * plot * diagram * axis

    Anagrams

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    atlas

    English

    (wikipedia atlas)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
  • A bound collection of tables, illustrations etc. on any given subject.
  • A detailed visual conspectus of something of great and multi-faceted complexity, with its elements splayed so as to be presented in as discrete a manner as possible whilst retaining a realistic view of the whole.
  • * 1904 : Eugène Collin, An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs , main title (J. & A. Churchill)
    • An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs
  • * 1991 : Alan C. F. Colchester and David J. Hawkes [eds.], Information Processing in Medical Imaging , page 154] ([http://www.springer.com/computer/computer+imaging/book/978-3-540-54246-9?cm_mmc=Google-_-Book%20Search-_-Springer-_-0 Springer; ISBN 9783540542469)
    • In addition to classical radiology systems like angiography, CT scanner or MRI have greatly contributed to the improvement of the patient anatomy investigation. Each examination modality still carries its own information and the need to make a synthesis between them is obvious but still makes different problems hard to solve. There is no unique imaging facility which can bring out the whole set of known anatomical structures, brought together in a neuro-anatomical atlas .
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 55 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • Our perception of the body as the natural “space of the origin and distribution of disease”, a space determined by the anatomical 'atlas' , is merely one of the various ways in which medicine has formed its “knowledge”.
  • * 2003 : Isabelle E. Magnin, Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart , page 19] ([http://www.springer.com/computer/computer+imaging/book/978-3-540-40262-6?cm_mmc=Google-_-Book%20Search-_-Springer-_-0 Springer; ISBN 9783540402626)
    • Finally, Subsol et al. [6] reported on a method for automatically constructing 3D morphometric anatomical atlantes which is based on the extraction of line and point features and their subsequent non-rigid registration.
  • (topology) A collection of top-dimensional subspaces, called charts, each homeomorphic to Euclidean space, which comprise the entirety of a manifold, such that intersecting charts' respective homeomorphisms are compatible in a certain way.
  • (anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the neck.
  • * {{quote-book, author = (William Stukeley)
    • , title = , year = 1734 , page = 58 , passage = There are of these glands upon the first vertebra'' of the neck of the ''atlas ; on which the head turns... }}
  • One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
  • (architecture) A figure of a man used as a column; telamon.
  • (paper) A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
  • A rich satin fabric.

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