graph paper

noun

: paper ruled for drawing graphs

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Above his desk, pinned to a bulletin board, was a scrap of graph paper with a number scribbled on it: 11896. Joseph Coughlin, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025 Among the artifacts that Bandai Namco shared with the city for the exhibit are some of the original sketches of the game’s inventor, Toru Iwatani, drawn with pencil on graph paper and inspired, the story goes, by the shape created when a slice was taken from a lunchtime pizza. Heather McRea, Oc Register, 30 May 2025 The plan was already beginning to emerge on a sheet of Mylar graph paper—an oval, surrounded by arrows, with a handful of anomalous objects marked. Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 Imagine a piece of graph paper showing the price level rising along a two percent trend line from its current position. Scott Sumner, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2016 See All Example Sentences for graph paper

Word History

First Known Use

1927, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of graph paper was in 1927

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“Graph paper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graph%20paper. Accessed 28 Jun. 2025.

Kids Definition

graph paper

noun
: paper ruled (as into small squares) for drawing graphs or making diagrams
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