As nouns the difference between pictogram and histogram
is that pictogram is a picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration while histogram is a graphical display of numerical data in the form of upright bars, with the area of each bar representing frequency.
As a verb histogram is
to represent (data) as a histogram.
pictogram
Alternative forms
* pictogramme (rare)
Noun
(
en noun)
A picture that represents a word or an idea by illustration.
Usage notes
Strictly speaking, a pictogram'' represents by illustration, an ''ideogram'' represents an idea, and a ''logogram'' represents a word: Chinese characters are all logograms, but few are pictograms or ideograms. Casually, ''pictogram is used to represent all of these: it is a picture representing some concept.
Synonyms
* pictograph
* hieroglyph
Related terms
* ideogram
* logogram
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histogram
Alternative forms
* histogramme
Noun
(
en noun)
(statistics) A graphical display of numerical data in the form of upright bars, with the area of each bar representing frequency.
See also
* bar chart
* vertical line diagram
Verb
(histogramm)
To represent (data) as a histogram.
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