bar chart

noun

Examples of bar chart in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And, as the second bar chart shows, the stock prices of U.S. steel companies had lost 28 percent of their value, even as the S&P 500 index had gained 24 percent. Benn Steil, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2021 On the weekly bar chart, AAPL has its first MACD ‘sell’ signal since January. Katie Stockton, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2024 Bottom: Another bar chart shows the relative contribution of premium-value species of sharks in that market, as well as their IUCN vulnerability status. Angela Posada-Swafford, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2024 The model showed a bar chart breaking down posts from the time into two categories: risk-related and not-risk-related, beginning on Monday morning. Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 15 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for bar chart 

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Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of bar chart was in 1904

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“Bar chart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bar%20chart. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.

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bar chart

noun
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