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Graph vs Schema - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between graph and schema

is that graph is a diagram displaying data; in particular one showing the relationship between two or more quantities, measurements or indicative numbers that may or may not have a specific mathematical formula relating them to each other while schema is an outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema).

As a verb graph

is to draw a graph.

graph

English

(wikipedia graph)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A diagram displaying data; in particular one showing the relationship between two or more quantities, measurements or indicative numbers that may or may not have a specific mathematical formula relating them to each other.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author= , title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= citation , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs : These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • (mathematics) A diagram displaying data, in particular one showing the relationship between two or more variables; specifically, for a function f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n), the set of all tuples (x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n, f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n)).
  • (graph theory) An ordered pair (V,E), where V is a set of elements called vertices'' (or ''nodes'') and E is a set of pairs of elements of V, called ''edges ; informally, a set of vertices together with a set edges that join these vertices.
  • (lb) A character, in particular the abstracted fundamental shape of a character as distinct from its ductus (realization in a particular typeface or handwriting: compare glyph).

    • Synonyms

    * (in graph theory) undirected graph * See also

    Hyponyms

    * (in graph theory) tree

    Derived terms

    * acyclic graph * biased graph * biconnected graph * bipartite graph * complete graph * connected graph * directed graph * Eulerian graph * graph articulation * graph centre * graph eccentricity * graph eigenvalue * graph geodesic * graph minor * graph polynomial * graph spectrum * graph thickness * graphic matroid * graphoid * Hamiltonian graph * hypergraph * line graph * multigraph * object graph * Petersen graph * planar graph * pseudograph * random graph * regular graph * signed graph * small world graph * strongly regular graph * subgraph * superregular graph * undirected graph * unicursal graph * voltage graph * weighted graph

    Related terms

    * graphic * graphical * graphism

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw a graph.
  • (mathematics) To draw a graph of a function.

    • Synonyms

    * (draw a graph of) plot, chart

    See also

    * plot * diagram * axis

    Anagrams

    *

    schema

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a ).
  • (databases) A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column.
  • (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as for XML files.
  • (logic) A formula in the language of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions.

    • Synonyms

    * (universally-applicable image or outline) schemat * (databases) schemat * (logic) axiom schema, schemat

    Derived terms

    * conceptual schema * logical schema * physical schema

    Related terms

    * schematic(al)]][[schematically, (ly) * schematism * schematist * schematization * schematize * schematologetically * schematomancy * scheme

    Anagrams

    * *

    References

    * “ schema]” listed in the [[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary] , second edition (1989) English nouns with irregular plurals ----