Category: G

A cemetery; a place for the interment of dead bodies; sometimes definedin statutes as a place where a minimum number of persons (as “six or more”) areburied. See Stockton v. Weber, 98 Cal. 433, 33 Pac. 332.

In old English law. Noblemen or grandees. Jacob.

Conveys the perception of great or greater detail. Typically used when discussing a model or decision making process. More granularity means greater detail. An example is the level of detail, or granularity, of data behind a summary.

Depiction of data point relationships in a two-dimensional drawing. The relationship, most commonly between two set of numbers, displays in several different ways. It can be a line, a curve, a series of bars, or some other group of symbols. A common drawing starts with an independent variable represented on the horizontal line, called the X-axis. A dependent variable goes on the vertical line, or Y-axis. The X and Y axis intersect perpendicular at a point called the origin. Each axis is calibrated in some unit value for the quantities to be represented. Taken to mean the same as ‘chart’.

Representing or depicting an item as an image visually.

Architectural planning of the images, patterns, layouts, and other image devices organized into a coherent, distinctive layout and format that will convey what is wanted in a way to allow printing or electronic display over visual media. A simple graphic design containing many graphic elements can effective. Considered to be one of the best graphic designs of all times, the ‘nutrition information’ section that is found on the labels of practically all packaged foods, is a table of data that uses only horizontal bars of varying thickness.

Windows operating system functionality of display and print features. A graphic is displayed or printed, controlled by the computer operating system, not the monitor or the printer.

Interface, point-of-contact software managing what passes forth and back between the computer and its user. Whatever displays, whatever a user enters, by keystroke, mouseclick, finger or stylus touch, or speech, is managed and controlled by the GUI. Xerox pioneered it and Apple deployed it in its computers. GUI is now used in every operating system by most application programs. The GUI uses graphic elements like dialog boxes, icons, menus, scroll bars, more so than text characters to let the user enter commands and do on-screen manipulations. A GUI is built to use a consistent set of graphical elements. Once the user learns a particular interface, similar programs become usable without additional learning.

In old records. The grazing or turning up the earth with a plow.The name of a customary service for inferior tenants to bring their plows, and do oneday’s work for their lords. Cowell.

Rogation week, so called anciently in the inns of court and chancery.