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graph | char |

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 char is

a nickname for charlotte.

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

    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

    *

    char

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . More at chore, ajar.

    Alternative forms

    * chare

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
  • (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
  • An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
  • A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
  • I had to scrub the kitchen today, because the char couldn't come.
    Synonyms
    * charlady * charwoman * cleaning lady * cleaning woman

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
  • To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
  • * 1893', She explained that she was the commissionaire's wife, who did the ' charing , and I gave her the order for the coffee. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’ (Norton 2005, p.677)
  • * 1897 , , chapter 2
  • Her husband had been a soldier, and from a grateful country she received a pension large enough to keep her from starvation, and by charring and doing such odd jobs as she could get she earned a little extra to supply herself with liquor.
  • (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
  • * Old proverb
  • That char is chared , as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband.
    (Nares)
  • To work or hew (stone, etc.).
  • Etymology 2

    Origin unknown, perhaps from Celtic.

    Alternative forms

    * charr

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus .
  • “Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char .”

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (charr)
  • (ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
  • To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
  • Synonyms
    * coal * blacken, scorch, sear, singe

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A charred substance.
  • Synonyms
    * charcoal

    Etymology 4

    Abbreviation of (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol), whose data size is commonly one or several bytes.
  • * Java programming language tutorial [http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/text/terminology.html]
  • * 1975 , Computerworld - 23 avr. 1975 - Page 21
  • The unit is an 80-column, 30 char. /sec dot matrix printer which uses a 5 by 7 font.
    A Unicode code unit is a 16-bit char value. For example, imagine a String that contains the letters "abc" followed by the Deseret LONG I, which is represented with two char values. That string contains four characters, four code points, but five code units.
  • * 1997 , Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 1.1: Fundamentals
  • Chars can be considered as integers if need be without an explicit cast.
  • * 1998 , John R Hubbard, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Fundamentals of Computing with C++
  • Then since each char occupies one byte, these four bytes represent the three letters 'B', 'y', 'e', and the null character NUL.
  • * 2000 , Ken Brownsey, The essence of data structures using C++
  • Thus string variables are pointer variables to chars .
  • * 2002 , Nell B. Dale, Michael McMillan, Visual Basic .NET: a laboratory course - Page 25
  • .NET uses the Unicode character set in which each char constant or variable takes up two bytes (16 bits) of storage.
    Derived terms
    * signed char * unsigned char

    Etymology 5

    From (etyl) , with intrusive r .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (British) tea (drink)