chart

chart
    n 1: a visual display of information
    2: a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea
    v 1: make a chart of; "chart the territory"
    2: plan in detail; "Bush is charting a course to destroy Saddam
       Hussein"
    3: represent by means of a graph; "chart the data" [syn:
       {graph}, {chart}]
    

Chart \Chart\ (ch[aum]rt; k[aum]rt Obs.), n. [A doublet of card:
   cf. F. charte charter, carte card. See {Card}, and cf.
   {Charter}.]
   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. A written deed; a charter.
      [1913 Webster]

   {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.
      [1913 Webster]
    

Chart \Chart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charted}.]
   To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a
   coast.
   [1913 Webster]
    

CHARTA. An ancient word which signified not only a charter or deed in 
writing, but any signal or token by which an estate was held. 
    

197 Moby Thesaurus words for "chart":
      Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection,
      Miller projection, adjust, aeronautical chart, alphabet, arrange,
      art, astronomical chart, atlas, azimuthal equidistant projection,
      azimuthal projection, blueprint, brouillon, card index,
      cartographer, cartography, cartoon, cast, catalog,
      catalogue raisonne, catch a likeness, celestial chart,
      celestial globe, character, charactering, characterization,
      characterize, choreography, chorographer, chorography,
      climatic chart, codify, conic projection, contents, contour line,
      contour map, conventional representation, coordinate, copy,
      cylindrical projection, dance notation, delineate, delineation,
      demonstration, dense, depict, depiction, depictment, design,
      diagram, dope out, draft, drama, draw, drawing, ebauche, elevation,
      esquisse, exemplification, figuration, figure, fix,
      general reference map, globe, gnomonic projection, graph,
      graphic scale, grid line, ground plan, hachure, harmonize,
      heliographic chart, hieroglyphic, hit off, house plan,
      hydrographic chart, ichnography, iconography, ideogram,
      illustration, imagery, imaging, index, isoline, latitude, lay off,
      lay out, layer tint, legend, letter, limn, limning, logogram,
      logograph, longitude, map, map maker, map out, map projection,
      mapper, mark off, mark out, meridian, methodize, musical notation,
      normalize, notate, notation, organize, outline, paint, parallel,
      pattern, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap,
      phototopography, physical map, pictogram, picture, picturization,
      picturize, plan, plat, plot, plot out, political map,
      polyconic projection, portraiture, portray, portrayal,
      prefigurement, presentment, print, printing, profile, project,
      projection, rationalize, realization, register, regularize,
      regulate, relief map, render, rendering, rendition, represent,
      representation, representative fraction, road map, rough,
      routinize, rub, scale, schema, schematize, scheme, score, script,
      set out, settle, sinusoidal projection, skeleton, sketch,
      sketch out, special map, standardize, syllabary, symbol, symbolize,
      synchronize, systematize, tablature, table, table of contents,
      tabulation, take a rubbing, terrain map, terrestrial globe,
      thematic map, thumb index, topographer, topographic chart,
      topography, trace, trace out, trace over, transportation map, tune,
      tune up, weather chart, weather map, working drawing, write,
      writing