Plot or Plotting may refer to:
Art, media and entertainment
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Plot (narrative)
In a literary work, film, or other narrative, the plot is the sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect. The causal events of a plot can be thought of as a series of events linked by the ...
, the story of a piece of fiction
Music
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''The Plot'' (album), a 1976 album by jazz trumpeter Enrico Rava
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The Plot (band)
The Plot was a heavy rock band formed in 2003 by bassist Pete Way and his long-time friend, guitarist Michael Schenker. The two wanted to form a band like UFO again and asked Phil Mogg and Andy Parker to regroup with them, but tension was still ...
, a band formed in 2003
Other
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''Plot'' (film), a 1973 French-Italian film
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''Plotting'' (video game), a 1989 Taito puzzle video game, also called Flipull
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''The Plot'' (video game), a platform game released in 1988 for the Amstrad CPC and Sinclair Spectrum
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''Plotting'' (non-fiction), a 1939 book on writing by Jack Woodford
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''The Plot'' (novel), a 2021 mystery by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Graphics
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Plot (graphics)
A plot is a graphical technique for representing a data set, usually as a graph showing the relationship between two or more variables. The plot can be drawn by hand or by a computer. In the past, sometimes mechanical or electronic plotters were u ...
, a graphical technique for representing a data set
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Plot (radar)
In naval terminology, a plot is a graphic display that shows all collated data from a ship's on-board sensors, i.e. radar, sonar and EW systems. They also displayed information from external sources - for example, other vessel or aircraft report ...
, a graphic display that shows all collated data from a ship's on-board sensors
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Plot plan
A site plan or a plot plan is a type of drawing used by architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and engineers which shows existing and proposed conditions for a given area, typically a parcel of land which is to be modified. Sites plan ...
, a type of drawing which shows existing and proposed conditions for a given area
Land
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Plot (land)
In real estate, a lot or plot is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner(s). A plot is essentially considered a parcel of real property in some countries or immovable property (meaning practically the same thing) in ot ...
, a piece of land used for building on
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Burial plot
A grave is a location where a cadaver, dead body (typically that of a human, although sometimes that of an animal) is burial, buried or interred after a funeral. Graves are usually located in special areas set aside for the purpose of burial ...
, a piece of land a person is buried in
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Quadrat
A quadrat is a frame, traditionally square, used in ecology, geography and biology to isolate a standard unit of area for study of the distribution of an item over a large area. Modern quadrats can for example be rectangular, circular, or irregul ...
, a defined area of land used for an ecological study
Other uses
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Robert Plot
Robert Plot (13 December 1640 – 30 April 1696) was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.
Early life and education
Born in Borden, Kent to parents Robe ...
(1640–1696), English naturalist
See also
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Motion planning
Motion planning, also path planning (also known as the navigation problem or the piano mover's problem) is a computational problem to find a sequence of valid configurations that moves the object from the source to destination. The term is used ...
, a term used in robotics for the process of detailing a task into atomic motions
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Plotting board
A plotting board was a mechanical device used by the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps as part of their fire control system to track the observed course of a target (typically a moving ship), project its future position, and derive the uncorrected d ...
, a mechanical device to track a target and project its future position
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Conspiracy (disambiguation)
A conspiracy is a secret act to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.
Conspiracy may also refer to:
Music
* Conspiracy (band), a progressive rock band founded by Billy Sherwood and Chris Squire
* ''Conspiracy'' (Junio ...
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Plotter (disambiguation)
A plotter is a computer printer for printing vector graphics.
Plotter may also refer to:
*Plotter (instrument), an instrument that marks positions on a map or chart
*Plotter (RAF), a person who records the movement of military aircraft in an Opera ...
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Plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Surveys to show the distance and bear ...
, a map
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