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Etymology
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Shortening of graphic formula. From 1878; verb from 1889.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
graph (plural graphs)
- (applied mathematics, statistics) 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.
- Hyponyms: bar graph, line graph, pie graph
- 2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 106:
- 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.
- (mathematics) A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples , where for a given function .
- 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, , that is, the point .
- 1969 [MIT Press], Thomas Walsh, Randell Magee (translators), I. M. Gelfand, E. G. Glagoleva, E. E. Shnol, Functions and Graphs, 2002, Dover, page 19,
- (graph theory) (formally) An ordered pair of sets , where the elements of are called vertices or nodes and is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of ; (less formally) a set of vertices (or nodes) together with a set of edges that connect (some of) the vertices.
- Hyponyms: directed graph, undirected graph, tree
- 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.
- 1997, Fan R. K. Chung, Spectral Graph Theory, American Mathematical Society, page 1,
- Spectral graph theory has a long history. In the early days, matrix theory and linear algebra were used to analyze adjacency matrices of graphs. Algebraic methods are especially effective in treating graphs which are regular and symmetric.
- (topology) 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.
- Synonym: topological graph
- 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 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 of a surface with marked points is an s-graph.
- A morphism of graphs is a continuous epimorphic map of graphs compatible with the stratification; i.e., the restriction of to any open 1-stratum (interior of an edge) of is a local (therefore, global) homeomorphism with appropriate open 1-stratum of .
- (category theory, of a morphism f) A morphism from the domain of to the product of the domain and codomain of , such that the first projection applied to equals the identity of the domain, and the second projection applied to is equal to .
- (linguistics, typography) 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.
- Synonym: glyph
- 2003, J. Richard Andrews, Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, page 10:
- A graph is a token-level nondistinctive representation of a grapheme. It can differ from the other variants of its grapheme with regard to upper case, lower case, script, print, typeface style, typeface size, etc.
Usage notes
- In mathematics, the graphical representation of a function sense is generally of interest only at an elementary level.
- Nevertheless, the term vertex-edge graph is sometimes used in educational texts to distinguish the graph theory sense.
- (points constituting a graphical representation of a function):
- A graph is similar to, but not the same as a (real) function (as defined formally).
- The function is a set of ordered pairs , where is a point in and is a point in .
- A graph of is a set of points (represented as n-tuples) .
- A graph is similar to, but not the same as a (real) function (as defined formally).
- (graph theory):
- A graph may be defined such that the elements of are ordered pairs or unordered pairs.
- If the pairs are unordered, may be called an undirected graph and the elements of are called edges.
- If the pairs are ordered, is called a directed graph or digraph and the elements of may be called arcs; the notation is sometimes used.
- If the two vertices of an edge represent the same point, the edge may be called a loop.
- A graph may be defined such that the elements of are ordered pairs or unordered pairs.
Hyponyms
Derived terms for types of graph
- acyclic graph
- biased graph
- biconnected graph
- bipartite graph
- complete graph
- connected graph
- dependency graph
- directed graph
- Eulerian graph
- Hamiltonian graph
- line graph
- multigraph
- nonoriented graph
- object graph
- oriented graph
- Petersen graph
- pseudograph
- random graph
- regular graph
- signed graph
- small world graph
- strongly regular graph
- subgraph
- superregular graph
- undirected graph
- unicursal graph
- voltage graph
- weighted graph
- See also
Graph (discrete mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- See also Thesaurus:graph
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
chart — see chart
mathematical diagram
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ordered pair in graph theory
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Verb
graph (third-person singular simple present graphs, present participle graphing, simple past and past participle graphed)
- (transitive) To draw a graph.
- (transitive, mathematics) To draw a graph of a function.
Synonyms
Translations
draw a graph of
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See also
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “graph”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
Chart on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Graph of a function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Graph theory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Graph (discrete mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Graph (topology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Graph (abstract data type) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Conceptual graph on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Glyph (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Tree (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Graph on Encyclopedia of Mathematics
- graph on nLab
- graph of a function on nLab
- graph of a functor on nLab
- Graph on Wolfram MathWorld
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