tree diagram

English

Noun

tree diagram (plural tree diagrams)

  1. (grammar, linguistics) A visual representation used to illustrate the hierarchical structure of a sentence.
    • 1978, Bernard Bloch, George Melville Bolling, Linguistic Society of America (contributors), Language‎[1], volume 54, numbers 1-3, page 15:
      In a tree diagram, only the configuration of nodes matters, not the length of branches and sub-branches.
  2. (probability theory) A visual representation used to represent a probability space.
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