plotting

noun

1. a small area of ground marked off for some special use: garden plot, cemetery plot
2. a chart or diagram, as of a building or estate

3. Origin: short for complot

   a secret, usually evil, project or scheme; conspiracy
4. the arrangement of the incidents in a play, novel, narrative poem, etc.

Origin: ME < OE, piece of land: some meanings infl. by complot

transitive verb plotted, plotting

1. 1. to draw a plan or chart of (a ship's course, etc.)
   2. to mark the position or course of on a map
2. to make secret plans for: to plot someone's destruction
3. to plan the action of (a story, etc.)
4. Math.
   1. to determine or mark the location of (a point) on a graph by means of coordinates
   2. to represent (an equation) by locating points on a graph and joining them to form a curve
   3. to draw (the curve thus determined)

intransitive verb