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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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
The histogram will display with a window automatically set.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020
Construct a histogram of the Japanese American community in Santa Clara County.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020
Use the arrows to go to the histogram picture and select the histogram.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020
The histogram describing the temporal occurrence of the breeding season of a species in our area usually will lie within intervals 7 to 25.
From The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Richard F. Johnston
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