bar chart

noun

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As the first bar chart below shows, steel-mill employment had fallen 4.2 percent, whereas overall private-sector employment had declined by just 1.9 percent (a fall driven by the COVID-19 pandemic). Benn Steil, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2021 Zooming in on the weekly bar chart, BA shows downside momentum per the declining 10- and 40-week moving averages. Katie Stockton, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024 And, as the second bar chart shows, the stock prices of U.S. steel companies had lost 28 percent of their value, even as the S&P 500 index had gained 24 percent. Benn Steil, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2021 On the weekly bar chart, AAPL has its first MACD ‘sell’ signal since January. Katie Stockton, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bar chart 

Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bar chart was in 1904

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“Bar chart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bar%20chart. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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bar chart

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