1. a type of bar chart that shows the frequency distribution of data by dividing it into intervals and displaying the number of data points in each interval as bars
Usage: statistics; mathematics

Examples

• The teacher asked us to create a histogram showing the test scores of our class.
• The histogram revealed that most students scored between 80 and 90 points.
• Scientists used a histogram to display the distribution of earthquake magnitudes.
• The data analyst created a histogram to visualize customer age groups.
• Looking at the histogram, we could see that the data was normally distributed.
• The histogram’s bars showed clear peaks at certain temperature ranges.