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Inventedfigured is a neologism used in academic and educational contexts to designate a diagram, figure, or illustration that is artificially created to illuminate a concept rather than to depict an empirically observed object. An inventedfigured diagram is typically designed to highlight particular properties, relationships, or steps in a proof, and may employ stylized shapes, exaggerated scales, or configurations that would not occur in real-world data.
Origins and usage: The term combines invented and figured and is most commonly found in discussions of
In practice, authors may annotate figures as inventedfigured to signal that the diagram is schematic rather
Related concepts include schematic diagrams, diagrammatic reasoning, and fictional or conceptual diagrams. See also geometry, mathematics