histogram
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of histogram
Explanation
Histogram is a fancy word for "bar graph." If you use the word histogram to describe a chart that uses bars or rectangles to display how often something happens, your math teacher will be impressed. The benefit of a histogram is that instead of a list of numbers, you can see information graphed on a bar chart, which makes it much more easy to understand. The word comes from the Greek root histos which means both "the mast of a ship" and "anything set upright," like the bars on a histogram.
Vocabulary lists containing histogram
Psychology
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Example Sentences
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Draw a histogram of body sizes with two plot lines, one showing the former population and another showing the new population that indicates how this population will likely evolve.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
On your histogram, also indicate what type of natural selection is occurring here.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The histogram for the data: 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8 is not symmetrical.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020
Construct a histogram of the Japanese American community in Santa Clara County.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020
It's got lots of applications -- you can ask a computer to count the lines in a picture and see if it's more like a "dog" line-frequency histogram or a "cat" line-frequency histogram.
From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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