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diagrammatic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *dwísder. Ancient Greek διά (diá) Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-) Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek γρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă) Ancient Greek διάγραμμα (diágramma)der. Italian diagrammader. French diagrammeder. English diagram Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)bor. English -tic English -atic English diagrammatic From diagram + -atic.

Meanings

1. In the form of a diagram.
   • He sits facing a diagrammatic wall map of the area under his supervision. 1962 May, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 341:
   • Moreover, a diagrammatic map of the electrified area is repeated at the top of every page. 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:
   • What we need is some way of representing all this information about constituent structure in diagrammatic form. In fact, this can be done in terms of a tree diagram [...] 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 51:
2. Of or pertaining to a diagram or to diagrammatics.
   • diagrammatic accuracy

Forms

Deriveds

nondiagrammatic · semidiagrammatic