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PLOTTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plotted mean?
• PLOTTED (adjective)
The adjective PLOTTED has 1 sense:
1. with planning and intention
Familiarity information: PLOTTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
With planning and intention
Synonyms:
aforethought; planned; plotted
Context example:
with malice aforethought
Similar:
premeditated (characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning)
Context examples
"What have you done with me, witch, sorceress? Who is in the room besides you? Have you plotted to drown me?"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They plotted the amount of UV light available to planets in orbit around these stars to determine where the chemistry could be activated.
(Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth, University of Cambridge)
A drawing illustrating the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes.
(Graph, NCI Thesaurus)
The CNEOS team plotted the object's current trajectory and even looked into its future.
(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)
I ain't a-going, if I know it, to run the risk of being plotted against.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A visual depiction of a survival function for survival data consisting of a series of horizontal steps of declining magnitude plotted against time.
(Kaplan Meier Survival Plot, NCI Thesaurus)
However, exomoons are harder to detect than exoplanets because they are smaller than their companion planet, and so their transit signal is weaker when plotted on a light curve that measures the duration of the planet crossing and the amount of momentary dimming.
(Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System, NASA)
A measure of resolution used when a system's response y (such as image-displayed activity concentration) to an ideal infinitely narrow spatially distributed input shows a width in its values surrounding a maximum when plotted against a locating variable x (such as distance relative to this input location).
(Full Width at Half Maximum, NCI Thesaurus)
Somebody has plotted something: you cannot too soon find out who and what it is.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
His guest had been outraged, his own life on a former occasion had been hideously plotted against; and both attempts he smothered in secrecy and sank in oblivion!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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