The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word DIAGRAMS
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More clues leading to the result DIAGRAMS
- Simplified drawings of clouds over Indian city
- Plans day writing about one Asian city
- Drawings of Mardi Gras, not right somehow
- Dull gathering Indian city stages, finally revealing plans
- Plans showing rear-facing spoke holding weight
- Graphs show rising relief by pulse spectrometer’s peak
- Plans for five hundred and one silver pile drivers
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What does DIAGRAMS mean?
DIAGRAMS noun- A plan, drawing, sketch or outline to show how something works, or show the relationships between the parts of a whole.
- A graph or chart.
- A functor from an index category to another category. The objects and morphisms of the index category need not have any internal substance, but rather merely outline the connective structure of at least some part of the diagram's codomain. If the index category is J and the codomain is C, then the diagram is said to be "of type J in C".
- To represent or indicate something using a diagram.
- To schedule the operations of a locomotive or train according to a diagram.