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graphical

graphical

7 4.4
Information shown using graphs like charts to display data
  • adjective
  • /ˈɡræfɪkəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : gráfico
  • She created a graphical display to show the statistical data collected during the survey.
  • graphical representation
  • graphical analysis
  • graphical interface

It's a very elegant way to combine equations with graphical manipulations.

Examples

  • The boxplot gives a graphical comparison of the distribution of prediction errors under the two models.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Automatic processing and display of the data require less than 15 minutes on a graphical workstation.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Programming languages make no use of the graphical properties and options of modern devices.

    Academic text (2011)
  • So you can see that calculating things using this graphical method is very simple.

  • The program provides graphical feedback showing the relative ranking of each factor.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The case study is the application of graphical analysis to the study of semidesert soils.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The controller offers a graphical configuration environment designed to accomplish continuous, batch, and discrete control applications.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Data can be printed in graphical and tabular format or exported to a text or Microsoft Excel file.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Exhibit 2 provides a graphical portrayal of the Delphi results to assist in comparing means and consensus.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Duffy (1990) suggests that using graphical analysis can increase student conceptual understanding of interest capitalization.

    Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

graphic
vsgraphical
151 3.7

Relating to pictures or charts that show information

is narrower and focuses on data shown in graphs and charts

Compounds

2 4.0

A screen with pictures and icons that you click to use a computer

graphical record
  • Specialized
4.1

A chart that shows numbers or data so you can see trends

graphical recording
  • Specialized
4.0

A picture that shows how numbers relate using points or lines on two lines called axes

How Graphical

visual
76 3.5
graphical
  • Specialized
7 4.4
tabular
1 6.1
textual
12 4.6

Surface Forms

graphical positive

Morphology

graphical = graphic (transparent) = graphic + al

Formed by adding the productive suffix '-al' to 'graphic', yielding a meaning directly about visual or diagrammatic representation.

Etymology

Graphical comes from an old Greek root graph- meaning 'to write' or 'to draw', the same root in the word graph, like a line graph. So a graphical representation is literally a 'drawn' picture of data, which is why it makes numbers easier to see.