bar graph

noun

: a graphic means of quantitative comparison by rectangles with lengths proportional to the measure of the data or things being compared

called also bar chart

Examples of bar graph in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

During his campaign, Mejia put up billboards on heavily trafficked streets with bar graphs comparing the three-billion-dollar L.A.P.D. budget with the city’s significantly smaller budget for housing and other priorities. —Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2023

One shown here [middle, bar graphs] reveals increased activity in the low-frequency ranges (theta and alpha) when a worker’s attention is high and cognitive stress is low; when the worker has low attention and high stress, there’s more activity in the higher-frequency ranges (beta and gamma). —Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Nov. 2022

Beside each app is a bar graph highlighting recent network activity. —Justin Pot, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023

Enlarge / Nvidia's H100 benchmark results versus the A100, in fancy bar graph form. —Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2022

David Denny, treasurer of the church, said the illuminated Garden Remembrance Memorial is supposed to look like a bar graph, showing how many people have died during the pandemic. —From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 4 June 2021

This bar graph shows how the seasons in Denver, Colorado — not far from where the Marshall Fire ignited — have grown warmer over the years. —Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2021

Here's a map of the sea ice concentration in the Bering and Chukchi seas on Nov. 19th, along with a bar graph illustrating how conditions now compare to every other year since 1978, the year modern satellite monitoring began. —Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2017

This time, subjects who didn't see a bar graph saw the numbers repeated in the text instead. —Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2014

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

bar graph

noun

: a graph that shows rectangles with lengths proportional to numbers as a visual way of comparing the numbers

called also bar chart