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.
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   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.
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   3. A written deed; a charter.
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   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.
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Chart \Chart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charted.]
   To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a
   coast.
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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.