bar graph

noun

1. a graph using parallel bars of varying lengths, as to illustrate comparative costs, exports, birth-rates, etc.

bar graph

noun

1. a graph consisting of vertical or horizontal bars whose lengths are proportional to amounts or quantities Also calledbar chartbar diagram

Word History and Origins

Origin of bar graph¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

When a reporter asked Newsom about Proposition 47, he turned to the screen onstage beside him and began playing an animated bar graph outlining states’ thresholds for felony theft.

From Los Angeles Times

She soon generated a color-coded bar graph showing men at all career levels ahead of women in lab space per capita.

From Science Magazine

Hoping to generate an explanation, the Grosecloses had included in their email a bar graph of Jack’s sleep cycle and a photo of him.

From New York Times

I think about the bar graph whenever I surf at Marconi, bobbing among seals in a wet suit that renders me indistinct from those glossy marine mammals.

From New York Times

Now, there are smaller prospects of airstrikes in the Afghan countryside that leave the unnamed and faceless dead as data points in a colored bar graph of a barely read United Nations report.

From New York Times