Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sankey diagram

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English

Syllables: sankey -di-a-gram
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A flow diagram in which the width of the arrows is proportional to the flow rate.

Etymology

Named after the Irish captain Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey, who used this type of diagram in 1898 to illustrate the energy efficiency of a steam engine.

Inflected Forms

Sankey diagrams (plural)

Questions

What does sankey diagram mean?: A flow diagram in which the width of the arrows is proportional to the flow rate.
Where does sankey diagram come from?: Named after the Irish captain Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey, who used this type of diagram in 1898 to illustrate the energy efficiency of a steam engine.

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