A change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot of a film, novel, or other narrative work.

(chiefly fandom slang) An idea for a story, usually referring to an author having more ideas than they can use.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lose, plot. / (UK, idiomatic) To cease to behave in a consistent and/or rational manner.

(Britain) A failed plot, in November 1605, to kill the Protestant king James I of England and VI of Scotland, and to blow up the House of Lords using gunpowder, annually commemorated on Guy Fawkes Day.

(idiomatic, often humorous) Used to describe an increasingly complex or mysterious situation.

plural of plot bunny

(statistics) A type of display using Cartesian coordinates to display values for two variables for a set of data.

An element introduced into a story, film, etc. to advance its plot.

The secondary plot of a piece of literature, television, etc., contrasted with the primary A plot.

(statistics) A graphical summary of a numerical data sample through five statistics: median, lower quartile, upper quartile, and some indication of more extreme upper and lower values.