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graph

noun · verb · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɡɹæf/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɡɹɑːf/
  • British, Southern, Standard: /ɡɹɑːf/
  • British, Southern, Standard: /ɡɹaf/
  • Northern-England, US: /ɡɹæf/
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  • rhymes with -ɑːf
  • rhymes with -æf
  • CMU ARPABET: G R AE1 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: applied mathematics

Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1,x_2,...,x_m,y)∈ R m+1, where y=f(x_1,x_2,...,x_m) for a given function f: R m→ R . See also Graph of a function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: mathematics, sciences

Examples

  • 1969 [MIT Press], Thomas Walsh, Randell Magee (translators), I. M. Gelfand, E. G. Glagoleva, E. E. Shnol, Functions and Graphs, 2002, Dover, page 19, Let us take any point of the first graph, for example, x=1/2,y=4/5, that is, the point M_1(1/2,4/5).

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A set of vertices (or nodes) connected together by edges; (formally) an ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V. See also Graph (discrete mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences

Examples

  • 1973, Edward Minieka (translator), Claude Berge, Graphs and Hypergraphs, Elsevier (North-Holland), [1970, Claude Berge, Graphes et Hypergraphes], page vii, Problems involving graphs first appeared in the mathematical folklore as puzzles (e.g. Königsberg bridge problem). Later, graphs appeared in electrical engineering (Kirchhof's Law), chemistry, psychology and economics before becoming a unified field of study.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A topological space which represents some graph (ordered pair of sets) and which is constructed by representing the vertices as points and the edges as copies of the real interval [0,1] (where, for any given edge, 0 and 1 are identified with the points representing the two vertices) and equipping the result with a particular topology called the graph topology.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology

Examples

  • 2008, Unnamed translators (AMS), A. V. Alexeevski, S. M. Natanzon, Hurwitz Numbers for Regular Coverings of Surfaces by Seamed Surfaces and Cardy-Frobenius Algebras of Finite Groups, V. M. Buchstaber, I. M. Krichever (editors), Geometry, Topology, and Mathematical Physics: S.P. Novikov's Seminar, 2006-2007, American Mathematical Society, page 6, First, let us define its 1-dimensional analog, that is, a topological graph. A graph Δ is a 1-dimensional stratified topological space with finitely many 0-strata (vertices) and finitely many 1-strata (edges). [...] A graph such that any vertex belongs to at least two half-edges we call an s-graph. Clearly the boundary ∂Ω of a surface Ω with marked points is an s-graph. A morphism of graphs φ:Δ'→Δ is a continuous epimorphic map of graphs compatible with the stratification; i.e., the restriction of φ to any open 1-stratum (interior of an edge) of Δ' is a local (therefore, global) homeomorphism with appropriate open 1-stratum of Δ.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: topological graph

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A morphism Γ_f from the domain of f to the product of the domain and codomain of f, such that the first projection applied to Γ_f equals the identity of the domain, and the second projection applied to Γ_f is equal to f.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: category-theory, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A graphical unit on the token-level, the abstracted fundamental shape of a character or letter as distinct from its ductus (realization in a particular typeface or handwriting on the instance-level) and as distinct by a grapheme on the type-level by not fundamentally distinguishing meaning.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, media, publishing, sciences, typography

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: glyph

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To draw a graph, to record graphically.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To draw a graph of a function.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: mathematics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: graphical record

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: visual communication

Narrower terms: seismogram, characteristic curve, characterisic function, ballistocardiogram, echoencephalogram, echocardiogram, electrocardiogram, cardiogram, EKG, ECG, electroencephalogram, encephalogram, EEG, electroretinogram, Laffer curve, learning curve, myogram, radiation pattern, radiation diagram, pattern, tachogram, thermogram, exponential curve

10

verb

Meaning 10

represent by means of a graph

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • chart the data

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chart

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: represent, interpret

11

verb

Meaning 11

plot upon a graph

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: diagram, plot

History

Etymology

Clipping of graphic formula. From 1878; verb from 1889.

Across languages

Translations

127 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Spanish: gráfico — chart
  • Spanish: gráfica — chart
  • Afrikaans: grafiek — graph of a function
  • Albanian: grafik — graph of a function
  • Arabic: مُخَطَّط بَيَانِيّ (muḵaṭṭaṭ bayāniyy) — graph of a function
  • Armenian: գրաֆիկ (grafik) — graph of a function
  • Asturian: gráficu — graph of a function
  • Azerbaijani: qrafik — graph of a function
  • Belarusian: гра́фік (hráfik) — graph of a function
  • Belarusian: дыягра́ма (dyjahráma) — graph of a function
  • Bengali: গ্রাফ (graph) — graph of a function
  • Bulgarian: гра́фика (gráfika) — graph of a function
  • Bulgarian: диагра́ма (diagráma) — graph of a function
  • Burmese: ဂရပ် (ga.rap) — graph of a function
  • Catalan: gràfic — graph of a function
  • Chinese Mandarin: 圖表 /图表 (túbiǎo) — graph of a function
  • Czech: graf — graph of a function
  • Danish: graf — graph of a function
  • Dutch: grafiek — graph of a function
  • Esperanto: grafeo — graph of a function
  • Estonian: graafik — graph of a function
  • Finnish: diagrammi — graph of a function
  • Finnish: kaaviokuva — graph of a function
  • French: graphique — graph of a function
  • Galician: gráfico — graph of a function
  • Georgian: გრაფიკი (grapiḳi) — graph of a function
  • German: Graph — graph of a function
  • German: Funktionsgraph — graph of a function
  • Greek: γράφημα (gráfima) — graph of a function
  • Hebrew: גְּרָף (graf) — graph of a function
  • Hindi: लेखाचित्र (lekhācitra) — graph of a function
  • Hindi: ग्राफ़ (grāf) — graph of a function
  • Hungarian: ábra — graph of a function
  • Hungarian: grafikon — graph of a function
  • Indonesian: grafik — graph of a function
  • Irish: graf — graph of a function
  • Italian: grafico — graph of a function
  • Japanese: グラフ (gurafu) — graph of a function
  • Japanese: 図表 (zuhyō) — graph of a function
  • Kazakh: график (grafik) — graph of a function
  • Khmer: ពិន្ទុរេខីយ (pintureikhəy) — graph of a function
  • Korean: 그래프 (geuraepeu) — graph of a function
  • Korean: 도표 (dopyo) — graph of a function
  • Kyrgyz: график (grafik) — graph of a function
  • Lao: ເສັ້ນສະແດງ (sen sa dǣng) — graph of a function
  • Lao: ກຣາຟ (krāp) — graph of a function
  • Latvian: grafs — graph of a function
  • Latvian: grafiks — graph of a function
  • Lithuanian: grafas — graph of a function
  • Lithuanian: grafikas — graph of a function
  • Macedonian: графико́н (grafikón) — graph of a function
  • Malay: graf — graph of a function
  • Māori: kauwhata — graph of a function
  • Mongolian: график (grafik) — graph of a function
  • Mongolian: ᠭᠷᠠᠹᠢᠻ (ɣrafik) — graph of a function
  • Norwegian Bokmål: graf — graph of a function
  • Persian: نمودار (nemudâr) — graph of a function
  • Persian: گراف (gerâf) — graph of a function
  • Polish: wykres — graph of a function
  • Portuguese: gráfico — graph of a function
  • Romanian: grafic — graph of a function
  • Russian: гра́фик (gráfik) — graph of a function
  • Russian: диагра́мма (diagrámma) — graph of a function
  • Scottish Gaelic: graf — graph of a function
  • Serbo-Croatian: гра̏ф — graph of a function
  • Serbo-Croatian: grȁf — graph of a function
  • Slovak: graf — graph of a function
  • Slovene: graf — graph of a function
  • Spanish: gráfico — graph of a function
  • Swahili: jedwali — graph of a function
  • Swedish: diagram — graph of a function
  • Swedish: graf — graph of a function
  • Tagalog: talangguhit — graph of a function
  • Tajik: график (grafik) — graph of a function
  • Thai: กราฟ (gráaf) — graph of a function
  • Turkish: grafik — graph of a function
  • Turkmen: grafik — graph of a function
  • Ukrainian: гра́фік (hráfik) — graph of a function
  • Ukrainian: діагра́ма (diahráma) — graph of a function
  • Urdu: گراف (grāf) — graph of a function
  • Uzbek: grafik — graph of a function
  • Vietnamese: biểu đồ — graph of a function
  • Welsh: graff — graph of a function
  • Belarusian: граф (hraf) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Bulgarian: граф (graf) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Catalan: graf — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Chinese Mandarin: 圖 /图 (tú) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Chinese Mandarin: 圖表 /图表 (túbiǎo) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Czech: graf — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Danish: graf — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Dutch: graaf — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Finnish: verkko — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Finnish: graafi — set of vertices connected by edges
  • French: graphe — set of vertices connected by edges
  • German: Graph — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Greek: γράφημα (gráfima) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Greek: γράφος (gráfos) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Hebrew: גְּרָף (graf) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Hindi: लेखाचित्र (lekhācitra) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Hungarian: gráf — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Irish: graf — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Italian: grafo — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Japanese: グラフ (gurafu) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Japanese: 図表 (zuhyō) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Korean: 그래프 (geuraepeu) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Korean: 도표 (dopyo) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Polish: graf — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Portuguese: grafo — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Romanian: graf — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Russian: граф (graf) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Serbo-Croatian: гра̏ф — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Serbo-Croatian: grȁf — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Slovak: graf — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Spanish: grafo — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Swedish: graf — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Thai: กราฟ (gráaf) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Ukrainian: граф (hraf) — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Vietnamese: biểu đồ — set of vertices connected by edges
  • Bulgarian: скицирам графика (skiciram grafika) — draw a graph of
  • Galician: debuxar un gráfico de — draw a graph of
  • Irish: graf — draw a graph of
  • Italian: graficare — draw a graph of
  • Russian: рисовать график (risovatʹ grafik) — draw a graph of
  • Russian: чертить график (čertitʹ grafik) — draw a graph of
  • Spanish: graficar — draw a graph of
  • Swedish: plotta — draw a graph of
  • Swedish: rita diagram — draw a graph of
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