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BAR CHART
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bar chart mean?
• BAR CHART (noun)
The noun BAR CHART has 1 sense:
1. a chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
Familiarity information: BAR CHART used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
bar chart; bar graph
Hypernyms ("bar chart" is a kind of...):
chart; graph (a visual display of information)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bar chart"):
histogram (a bar chart representing a frequency distribution; heights of the bars represent observed frequencies)
Context examples
A bar chart representing a frequency distribution where the heights of the bars represent observed frequencies.
(Histogram, NCI Thesaurus)
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