Venn diagram

See also: Venn-diagram and venndiagram

English

A 3-set Venn diagram, which is split by contours into 8 simply connected regions.

Etymology

Named after John Venn (1834–1923), British mathematician and philosopher.

Noun

Venn diagram (plural Venn diagrams)

1. (set theory) A diagram representing some sets by contours of closed shapes, such as circles or ellipses (and sometimes also the universal set as a rectangle enclosing all of these shapes), and indicating the relationships between the sets: by overlapping the shapes to show that the corresponding sets have a non-empty intersection, and by possibly (but not necessarily) enclosing all of the sets (which are proper subsets of the universal set) within a universal set (represented typically by a rectangle); such that the total number of simply connected regions is $2^{n}$, where n is the number of depicted sets which are proper subsets of the universal set.

Hypernyms

• diagram

Translations

diagram representing sets by circles

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文氏圖／文氏图 (wénshìtú), 維恩圖／维恩图 (wéi'ēntú)

• Czech: Vennův diagram m
• Dutch: venndiagram (nl) n
• Esperanto: Venn-a diagramo
• Finnish: Venn-diagrammi (fi)
• French: diagramme de Venn (fr) m
• German: Venn-Diagramm n
• Hungarian: Venn-diagram (hu)
• Icelandic: Venn-mynd f
• Ido: Venn-diagramo
• Italian: diagramma di Eulero-Venn m
• Macedonian: Венов дијаграм m (Venov dijagram)
• Portuguese: diagrama de Venn m
• Russian: диагра́мма Ве́нна f (diagrámma Vénna)
• Spanish: diagrama de Venn m
• Swedish: Venndiagram (sv) n
• Tagalog: guhiting Venn
• Turkish: Venn diyagramı (tr)

See also

• Euler diagram
• logic diagram

Further reading

• Venn diagram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia