di·a·gram
(dī′ə-grăm′)n.1. A plan, sketch, drawing, or outline designed to demonstrate or explain how something works or to clarify the relationship between the parts of a whole.
2. Mathematics A graphic representation of an algebraic or geometric relationship.
3. A chart or graph.
tr.v. di·a·grammed,
di·a·gram·ming,
di·a·grams or
di·a·gramed or
di·a·gram·ing To indicate or represent by or as if by a diagram.
[Latin
diagramma,
figure, from Greek,
a figure worked out by lines, plan, from
diagraphein,
to mark out, delineate :
dia-,
dia- +
graphein,
to write; see
gerbh- in
Indo-European roots.]
di′a·gram′ma·ble adj.
di′a·gram·mat′ic (-grə-măt′ĭk), di′a·gram·mat′i·cal adj.
di′a·gram·mat′i·cal·ly adv.
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| Adv. | 1. | diagrammatically - in a diagrammatic manner; "the landscape unit drawn diagrammatically illustrates the gentle rolling relief, with a peat-filled basin" |
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