(slang, fiction, sometimes derogatory) A plot device wherein a fictional character or other entity repeatedly and inexplicitly avoids harm or misfortune, due to their importance to the work's continued plot; the property of being prone to deus ex machinas.

A form of scatter plot

plural of heat plot

plural of plot line

(statistics) A graphical summary of a numerical data sample through five statistics — median, upper quartile, lower quartile, and upper extreme and lower extreme values — by depiction as a box with its edges at the quartile marks and an internal line at the median and with lines protruding from the box as far as the extremal values.

plural of box and whiskers plot

A probability plot, which is a graphical method for comparing two probability distributions by plotting their quantiles against each other.

plural of Q-Q plot

A kind of diagram illustrating the focal mechanism of an earthquake.

plural of beach ball plot