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English

Etymology

From Greek chartes, Latin carta, chart. Charte, a sheet of paper to which the Stoic philosophers compared the soul at birth.

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-chart.ogg



Noun

  1. A map for a very particular purpose, such as shipping or aeroplanes/airplanes, showing information useful for that purpose and ignoring most other information.
  2. A subspace of a manifold used as part of an atlas
  3. A graphical presentation of something.


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Translations

Verb

  1. To draw a chart or map.
  2. To draw or figure out a route or plan.
  3. : "Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there."
  4. [intrans.] (of a record) appear on a hit-recording chart.
  5. : "The song has charted for 1500 weeks!"


Translations

Related terms


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Chart \Chart\ (ch[aum]rt; k[aum]rt Obs.), n. [A doublet of card:
cf. F. charte charter, carte card. See Card, and cf.
Charter.]
1. A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which
information is exhibited, esp. when the information is
arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
[1913 Webster]

2. A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which
is projected a portion of water and the land which it
surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended
especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States
Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
[1913 Webster]

3. A written deed; a charter.
[1913 Webster]

Globular chart, a chart constructed on a globular
projection. See under Globular.

Heliographic chart, a map of the sun with its spots.

Mercator's chart, a chart constructed on the principle of
Mercator's projection. See Projection.

Plane chart, a representation of some part of the
superficies of the globe, in which its spherical form is
disregarded, the meridians being drawn parallel to each
other, and the parallels of latitude at equal distances.


Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the
moon.

Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place
or region.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Chart \Chart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charted.]
To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a
coast.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet chart
n 1: a visual display of information
2: a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea
v 1: make a chart of; "chart the territory"
2: plan in detail; "Bush is charting a course to destroy Saddam
Hussein"
3: represent by means of a graph; "chart the data" [syn: graph]
Moby Dictionary
Lambert conformal projection
, Mercator projection ,
Miller projection
, adjust , aeronautical chart , alphabet , arrange ,
art
, astronomical chart , atlas , azimuthal equidistant projection ,
azimuthal projection
, blueprint , brouillon , card index ,
cartographer
, cartography , cartoon , cast , catalog ,
catalogue raisonne
, catch a likeness , celestial chart ,
celestial globe
, character , charactering , characterization ,
characterize
, choreography , chorographer , chorography ,
climatic chart
, codify , conic projection , contents , contour line ,
contour map
, conventional representation , coordinate , copy ,
cylindrical projection
, dance notation , delineate , delineation ,
demonstration
, dense , depict , depiction , depictment , design ,
diagram
, dope out , draft , drama , draw , drawing , ebauche , elevation ,
esquisse
, exemplification , figuration , figure , fix ,
general reference map
, globe , gnomonic projection , graph ,
graphic scale
, grid line , ground plan , hachure , harmonize ,
heliographic chart
, hieroglyphic , hit off , house plan ,
hydrographic chart
, ichnography , iconography , ideogram ,
illustration
, imagery , imaging , index , isoline , latitude , lay off ,
lay out
, layer tint , legend , letter , limn , limning , logogram ,
logograph
, longitude , map , map maker , map out , map projection ,
mapper
, mark off , mark out , meridian , methodize , musical notation ,
normalize
, notate , notation , organize , outline , paint , parallel ,
pattern
, photogrammetrist , photogrammetry , photomap ,
phototopography
, physical map , pictogram , picture , picturization ,
picturize
, plan , plat , plot , plot out , political map ,
polyconic projection
, portraiture , portray , portrayal ,
prefigurement
, presentment , print , printing , profile , project ,
projection
, rationalize , realization , register , regularize ,
regulate
, relief map , render , rendering , rendition , represent ,
representation
, representative fraction , road map , rough ,
routinize
, rub , scale , schema , schematize , scheme , score , script ,
set out
, settle , sinusoidal projection , skeleton , sketch ,
sketch out
, special map , standardize , syllabary , symbol , symbolize ,
synchronize
, systematize , tablature , table , table of contents ,
tabulation
, take a rubbing , terrain map , terrestrial globe ,
thematic map
, thumb index , topographer , topographic chart ,
topography
, trace , trace out , trace over , transportation map , tune ,
tune up
, weather chart , weather map , working drawing , write ,
writing


CHARTA. An ancient word which signified not only a charter or deed in writing, but any signal or token by which an estate was held.
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