Definition of PERSECUTION. 1. : the act or practice of persecuting especially those who differ in origin, religion, or social outlook. 2. : the condition of being persecuted, harassed, or annoyed. See persecution defined for kids. ADVERTISEMENT.
Telling a Story With Graphs. Task. Each of the following graphs tells a story about some aspect of the weather: temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit), solar radiation (in watts per square meters), and cumulative rainfall (in inches)) measured by sensors in Santa Rosa, CA in February 2012. Note that the vertical gridlines represent the start of the day whose date is given.
1 The graph of a function is a picture of all of its (input,output) pairs. We put the inputs along the horizontal axis (the $\,x\,$-axis), and the outputs along the vertical axis (the $\,y\,$-axis).  Thus, the graph of a function $\,f\,$ is a picture of all points of the form [beautiful math coming...