bar graph
- noun
- /bɑr græf/
- Use visual displays such as bar graphs to emphasize progress.
- use of bar graph
- bar graph and pie chart
- bar graph display
And think about it like a bar graph with a bunch of different, you know, points of data on it.
- And think about it like a bar graph with a bunch of different, you know, points of data on it.
- Then we suggested a couple of bar graphs and David resisted those bar graphs.
Examples
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The accompanying bar graph shows the percentage of responses for each of these categories.
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The bar graph shows that the average area burned has doubled over the past 30 years.
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The results are shown as a bar graph on the user's display.
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Students analyze data and create a bar graph that allows them to look at the information in an organized way.
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The mean comprehension scores for each group were interpreted using a bar graph and displayed in Figure 3.
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The graph can be either a line or a bar graph depending on the students' graphing abilities and your curricular goals.
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The use of bar graphs, frequency polygons, and circle graphs is commonplace in most businesses.
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You can place a bar graph, for example, into a sales report.
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To see how these notebooks performed, look to the bar graphs with benchmark data.
Synonyms
A picture like a graph or table that shows information clearly
A diagram that shows data using lines, bars, or dots
A graph with bars that show and compare numbers for different groups
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a chart that uses rectangular bars to represent values' is directly and compositionally derived from 'bar' (the rectangular graphical element) plus 'graph' (a visual display of data). This is a conventional, cross-linguistically common naming pattern for chart types, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
The noun bar graph comes from the picture of bars—simple rectangles of different heights or lengths placed side by side to show numbers. Each bar shows a value by its size, so you can quickly 'compare' amounts.