Graph vs Graphics - What's the difference?
graph | graphics | Related terms |
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=
(mathematics) A diagram displaying data, in particular one showing the relationship between two or more variables; specifically, for a function , the set of all tuples .
(graph theory) An ordered pair , where is a set of elements called vertices'' (or ''nodes'') and is a set of pairs of elements of , 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).
The making of architectural or design drawings.
The graphic arts.
(computing) The pictorial representation and manipulation of data; the process by which a computer displays data.
(computing) The art or visual representations displayed by a computer.
Graphics is a related term of graph.
As nouns the difference between graph and graphics
is that graph is 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 while graphics is the making of architectural or design drawings.As a verb graph
is to draw a graph.graph
English
(wikipedia graph)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
Synonyms
* (in graph theory) undirected graph * See alsoHyponyms
* (in graph theory) treeDerived 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 graphSynonyms
* (draw a graph of) plot, chartSee also
* plot * diagram * axisAnagrams
*graphics
English
Noun
(wikipedia graphics) (computer graphics) (-)- This game is really fun, but the graphics aren't very good.