How to pronounce chart

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What chart means

noun

Most people know chart in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A map sailors use to find their way across the sea

In a sentence: The captain unrolled the chart to find a safe way past the rocks.

Where it comes from: It comes from Latin charta, meaning paper or a map, from a Greek word for a thin sheet of papyrus. It is related to the word card.

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