diagram – English noun declension

English noun forms of diagram

Noun: diagram
Singulardiagram
Pluraldiagrams

Sample Sentences

  • Electrical diagrams show device interconnections.
  • 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. [2012 March 26, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:]
  • A common way to represent change in state over time is via a timing diagram. [1999, Bruce Powel Douglass, Doing Hard Time: Developing Real-time Systems with UML, Objects, Frameworks, and Patterns, page 520:]
  • This particular diagram represents a dinosaur in the distant past and a person who is born in AD 2000. These objects stretch out horizontally in the graph because they last over time in reality, and time is the horizontal axis on the graph [2010, Susan Schneider, Science Fiction and Philosophy:]
  • Various terms for this type of graph seem to be used interchangeably: 'scatter diagram', 'scatter graph' and 'scatter plot'. [2013, Caroline Rickard, Essential Primary Mathematics, page 215:]
  • This powerful visual tool, known as the sawtooth diagram, is used to analyze inventory behavior over time. [2016, Stephen Cimorelli, Kanban for the Supply Chain, page 29:]
  • We can then chart them over time and it results in that kind of a diagram. [2017, Sherman Wilcox, Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages, page 177:]
  • Because you have fewer 10- to 15-letter entries in the diagram, you can make judgment calls more quickly by testing out the long ones at the outset. [1998 February 11, Michelle Arnot, Crossword Puzzles For Dummies, For Dummies, →ISBN:]
  • A crossword puzzle consists of a diagram that usually is rectangular and divided into blank (white) and cancelled (black, shaded, or crosshatched) squares. [2006 06, Willie Maartens, Mapping Reality: A Critical Perspective on Science and Religion, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 4:]
  • If you think of a completed crossword diagram as a house, short words with common letters are the necessary “mortar” that makes the longer, more interesting “brick” words in a puzzle possible. [2019 January 15, Stanley Newman, The Beginner's Crossword Dictionary: Everything You Need to Know to Start Solving Crosswords with Confidence, Union Square & Co., →ISBN:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
3. Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
4. Ancient Greek διά (diá)
5. Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
6. Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
7. Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
8. Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
9. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
10. Proto-Hellenic *-mə
11. Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
12. Ancient Greek γρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă)
13. Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma)der.
14. Italian diagrammader.
15. French diagrammeder.
16. English diagram
17. From French diagramme, from Italian diagramma, from Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma). See: French Nouns 'diagramme', Italian Nouns 'diagramma', Ancient Greek Nouns 'διάγραμμα'.

Verbs referencing "diagram"

Dutch Nouns diagram.