diagrammatic

English

Adjective

diagrammatic (comparative more diagrammatic, superlative most diagrammatic)

1. In the form of a diagram.
   • 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:

     Moreover, a diagrammatic map of the electrified area is repeated at the top of every page.

   • 1962 May, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 341:

     He sits facing a diagrammatic wall map of the area under his supervision.

   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 51:

     What we need is some way of representing all this information about constituent structure in diagrammatic form. In fact, this can be done in terms of a tree diagram [...]

2. Of or pertaining to a diagram or to diagrammatics.

   diagrammatic accuracy

Derived terms

• nondiagrammatic
• semidiagrammatic