# Graphing Word Definitions

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 27, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graphing-word-definitions/711046 "2015-01-27T20:13:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/graphing-word-definitions/711046/1 "2015-01-27T20:13:02Z")

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I have seen (for example, on [thesaurus.com](http://thesaurus.com)) charts which show how close the definition of two different words are to one another.

Has anyone gone in and determined how many factors there are to the definition of a word and computed coordinates in some level of dimensionality? Or has this been determined to be impossible?