Definition of: plot

(plot) noun
1. A piece or patch of ground set apart; also called plat.
2. A chart or diagram, as of a building, for showing certain data; also, a surveyor's map.
3. A secret plan to accomplish some questionable purpose; conspiracy.
4. The series of incidents forming the plan of action of a story, play, or poem.
—v. plot·ted, plot·ting v.t.
1. To make a map, chart, or plan of, as a ship's course, a building, etc.
2. To plan for secretly: to plot an enemy's ruin.
3. To arrange the plot of (a novel, etc.)
4. Math, a To represent graphically the position of (a measured value) by a point located with reference to its coordinates on plotting paper. b To draw (a curve) through a series of such points.
—v.i.
5. To form a plot; conspire. [OE]