GRAPH

I. noun Etymology: short for ~ic formula Date: 1886 the collection of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given relation (as a function), a diagram (as a series of one or more points, lines, line segments, curves, or areas) that represents the variation of a variable in comparison with that of one or more other variables, a collection of vertices and edges that join pairs of vertices, II. transitive verb Date: 1898 to represent by a ~, to plot on a ~, III. noun Etymology: probably from -~ Date: 1933 a written or printed representation of a basic unit of speech (as a phoneme or syllable), a single occurrence of a letter of an alphabet in any of its various shapes