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Illustration vs Chart - What's the difference?

illustration | chart |

As nouns the difference between illustration and chart

is that illustration is the act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct while chart is a map.

As a verb chart is

to draw a chart or map of.

illustration

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
  • That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England will regard it as a measure of justice for Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany in Bloemfontein at the 2010 World Cup - but it was also an illustration of how they rode their luck for long periods in front of a predictably partisan home crowd.}}
  • A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
  • A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)"an illustration [...] is a computer projection of future premiums, cash values and death benefits based on the current dividend scale (whole life) or current interest rates and current costs of insurance (universal life)." taken from http://www.evaluatelifeinsurance.org
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    chart

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A map.
  • # A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
  • # A navigator's map.
  • A systematic non-narrative presentation of data.
  • # A tabular presentation of data; a table.
  • #* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=, volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= , title= Pixels or Perish , 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.}}
  • # A diagram.
  • # A graph.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
  • , title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
  • # A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
  • # A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
  • A written deed; a charter.
  • (topology) A subspace of a manifold used as part of an atlas
  • Derived terms

    * ancestral chart * bar chart * chart house * chartbook * charted * charticle * chartjunk * chartless * chartometer * chartroom * control chart * eye chart * flipchart * flow chart * music chart * org chart * organization chart * PERT chart * pie chart * psychrometric chart * record chart * spaghetti chart * star chart * step chart * wallchart * weather chart

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw a chart or map of.
  • To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
  • Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.
    We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.
  • To record systematically.
  • (of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.
  • The song has charted for 15 weeks!
    The band first charted in 1994.

    Derived terms

    * chartable * rechart

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