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Chart   /tʃɑrt/   Listen
noun
Chart  n.  
1.
A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
2.
A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
3.
A written deed; a charter.
Globular chart, a chart constructed on a globular projection. See under Globular.
Heliographic chart, a map of the sun with its spots.
Mercator's chart, a chart constructed on the principle of Mercator's projection. See Projection.
Plane chart, a representation of some part of the superficies of the globe, in which its spherical form is disregarded, the meridians being drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude at equal distances.
Selenographic chart, a map representing the surface of the moon.
Topographic chart, a minute delineation of a limited place or region.


verb
Chart  v. t.  (past & past part. charted)  To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast.





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"Chart" Quotes from Famous Books



... dropped the flap behind him. Then he stepped to a shelf and took down a roll of paper which he spread upon the table. Howard looking at it with lack-lustre eyes saw that it was a sort of geological chart of the neighbourhood. Longstreet set his finger upon a point where he had made a cross ...
— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory
... chart and the Injun helt it by that there gasoline lamp, so all could see, turning the pages now and then. It was a map of a man's inside organs and digestive ornaments and things. They was red and blue, like each organ's own ...
— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis
... when he saw, Life's voyage done, his heavenly Friend, Could ever yet dare tell him fearlessly: "I have kept uninfringed my nature's law; The inly-written chart thou gavest me, To guide me, I have steer'd by ...
— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold
... with abundance of treasure. The birds were fairly well labelled with the popular names, and Yan brought away a lot of sketches, which made him very happy. These he afterward carefully finished and put together in a Duck Chart that solved many of his ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
... of them. To hear those two fellows separately tell what she was like, you couldn't have believed them speaking of the same person. The second one thought the first had—sort o'—charted her harbor for him; but when he came to sail in, 'pon my soul, if every shoal on the chart wasn't deep water, and every deep water a fortified shore—ha, ...
— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable


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