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box plot

Noun B2 – Upper-Intermediate

A diagram that summarises a set of data using its median, quartiles and extreme values.

"The box plot showed that the second class had a much wider spread of scores."

The box itself covers the middle fifty percent of the data, a range called the interquartile range.

Synonyms

box-and-whisker plot