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.
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.
3. A written deed; a charter.
{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.
Chart \Chart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Charted}.] To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast. ※ ||
The West German chancellor, on a three-day visit to Washington, also told Shultz that Bonn would accept modernization of short-range missiles, but that it first wanted NATO to chart a comprehensive arms-control strategy.
"On the older DC-8's, the gauges were so unreliable that we were directed by Braniff to disregard them totally and keep a fuel-burn chart," he said.
They presented a chart showing the fund would be $193 million in the red by 1995 unless a down payment were required and the loan origination fee raised.
In testimony, the prosecution called FBI agent Robert Reich to explain a large chart that outlined the flow of funds from the Philippines for the purchase of an office building at 200 Madison.
The great drought rally of 1988 is history, just a big blip on a long chart.
Soybean oil futures fell sharply on selling inspired by weakening chart signals.
Stovall concedes the patterns in GM's stock chart aren't an infallible guide to the market outlook.
He picked up a national weather chart and pointed toward the Pacific.
Weakening cash markets and bearish chart signals prompted heavy selling of pork futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and the selling spilled over into the cattle pits.
In fact, some chart analysts say that a currency can be out of line with its PPP value for up to five years. Undermining the importance of economic fundamentals on a short-term basis is the size of the currency market.
Younger workers, by contrast, are much more likely to find employment in the non-state or 'private' sector as the chart shows, usually unlicensed small-scale trading or in off-shoots from the state enterprises.
'The Pounds 949/Pounds 950 level was an important chart point,' one said.
The growth of nominal demand has no identifiable relationship to the growth of real output in the longer term. The chart summarises the experience of the main OECD countries over the past 20 years.
These programmes, mixing chart hits with contemporary news clips, form some of the most evocative historical documents imaginable.
Between 1984 and 1992, broad money's velocity of circulation fell from 1.56 to 0.95 -a decline of around 6 per cent a year, (see chart).
As the chart shows, between 1961 and 1991 the 12 current members of the EC increased their exports to one another from 43 per cent of total exports to 62 per cent.
The February rise in the index brought it to 190.6% of its 1967 average from 188.9% in January (see chart on page one).
The second chart will list closing price quotes for 25 popular junk bonds that traders at Salomon Brothers consider benchmark issues, such as the bonds of RJR Nabisco, R.H. Macy and Kroger.
'User cost', also shown for the UK in the chart, is the amount that would need to be invested to maintain in perpetuity an income equal to the difference between the value of oil and gas output and user cost.
Usually twice as many singles are sold in the two or three weeks before Christmas than in the same period at any other time of the year. The competition for the top of this year's Christmas chart is hotter than ever.
But as the chart also shows, the market has been wrong before: last March, for example.
"The dollar has been influenced by chart levels.
"Brewing is really an unknown science," he contends, checking the temperature chart on a stainless-steel fermenting tank.
As they chart their course through the coming months, what indicators are the various members of the Fed's policy-making Federal Open Market Committee watching?
Although he holds more titles and wields more power on the organization chart than any other Mobil chief executive in 30 years, Mr. Murray is working his way out of the shadow of two strong predecessors.
There was the time-line chart, ranging from 1984 to 1990, with bright red and green blocks signifying the months or seasons when various witnesses said they had used drugs with Mayor Marion Barry.
Let's hope that having shown his mastery of rock's current idioms, he'll want to help chart its future.
The top section of the chart shows that since January 1987, the Ecu-denominated producer prices of Germany, France and Italy, all members of the ERM throughout that period, have moved together closely.
Energy futures ended mixed on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Near-term crude oil deliveries finished slightly lower after a burst of buying early in the session that analysts linked to bullish chart signals.
Rather the system is poorly structured and administered and pays too many unnecessary pensions. Compared with other European countries (see chart) the retirement age is low, and pensions tend to be higher as a proportion of final salary.