Ganttn.
/ɡant/ Gantt chart n. a chart in which a series of horizontal lines shows the amount of work done or production completed in certain periods of time in relation to the amount planned for those periods.
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1918 L. P. Alford in Industrial Management Feb. 100/2 The supply division of the Ordnance Bureau of the Army..has its information in regard to requirements and progress in graphical form on the Gantt charts.
1923 W. Clark Gantt Chart i. 5 In the Gantt chart a division of space represents both an amount of time and an amount of work to be done in that time.
1958 J. F. Magee Production Planning & Inventory Control ix. 223 Gantt charts make use of a horizontal scale marked in time units. A series of horizontal lines..is used to display data.
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