diagrammatic

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adjective

In the form of a diagram.

“diagrammatic accuracy”

UncommonScrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivediagrammatic (comparative more diagrammatic, superlative most diagrammatic)

comparative more diagrammatic · superlative most diagrammatic

  1. In the form of a diagram.

    He sits facing a diagrammatic wall map of the area under his supervision.

    1962 May, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 341
    2 more examples

    Moreover, a diagrammatic map of the electrified area is repeated at the top of every page.

    1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714

    What we need is some way of representing all this information about constituent structure in diagrammatic form. In fact, this can be done in terms of a tree diagram [...]

    1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 51
  2. Of or pertaining to a diagram or to diagrammatics.

    diagrammatic accuracy

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveshown or represented by diagrams

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dwís
  4. Ancient Greekδιά (diá)
  5. Ancient Greekδῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
  6. Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
  7. Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
  8. Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
  9. Ancient Greekγρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă)
  10. Ancient Greekδιάγραμμα (diágramma)
  11. Italiandiagramma
  12. Frenchdiagramme
  13. Englishdiagram
  14. Englishdiagrammatic

From diagram + -atic.

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