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geometric symbol

Graphic symbol made of a point, a line, an area, a surface or a volume.

symbole géométrique

Symbole graphique fait d'un point, d'une ligne, d'une aire, d'une surface ou d'un volume.

L'une des trois classes de symboles graphiques de Börner et al. 2019 (tab. 1), avec les symboles linguistiques et picturaux. Point, ligne et aire reprennent les implantations de Bertin ; Harris 1999 oppose déjà symboles géométriques et picturaux.

Classification

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Attestation

French term: Common usage, not attested by a source
English definition: Data visualization literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessm...

Sources (4)

6 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 2 books

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/geometric-symbol.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. geometric symbol. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/geometric-symbol.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-geometric-symbol,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {geometric symbol},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/geometric-symbol.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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