tree diagram

Meanings

nountree diagram (plural tree diagrams)

grammarA visual representation used to illustrate the hierarchical structure of a sentence.
In a tree diagram, only the configuration of nodes matters, not the length of branches and sub-branches.
1978, Bernard Bloch, George Melville Bolling, Linguistic Society of America (contributors), Language, volume 54, numbers 1-3, page 15
mathematicsA visual representation used to represent a probability space.

nouna figure that branches from a single root

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Broader

plane figuretwo-dimensional figure

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