noun
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an instrument for plotting lines or angles on a chart
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a person who plots; conspirator
Etymology
Origin of plotter
Example Sentences
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In a bid to remove the “stain in his blood” as the son of a Gunpowder Plotter, he decided to reinvent himself as a pirate.
From Economist • May 26, 2016
Fire officials say it happened Tuesday at about 7 p.m. while the teen was walking with five others in the Plotter Kill Preserve in Schenectady County.
From Washington Times • May 13, 2015
The Raymarine RC 400 GPS Chart Plotter proves that you can put a full-function chart plotter in a handheld package, providing you have a reasonably large hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soviet Coup Plotter Acquitted General Valentin Varennikov, a former Soviet Deputy Defense Minister, was acquitted of charges that he helped try to overthrow the government of Mikhail Gorbachev in August 1991.
From Time Magazine Archive
But that only means that he was a Scotsman, for he describes Ferguson the Plotter in the same way.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord
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