trendline

trendline or trend line [trend-lahyn] ExamplesWord Origin noun

1. an upward or downward line on a chart indicating movements of average prices, as of stocks, over a period of time.

Origin of trendline 1910–15 for more general sense; trend + line1 Examples from the Web for trendline Contemporary Examples of trendline

We have already seen where that leads us—take a look at the trendline of recording sales, if you have any doubts.

Music Criticism Has Degenerated Into Lifestyle Reporting

Ted Gioia

March 18, 2014

One way of answering the question is to look at trendline growth in GDP compared to the anticipated size of any looming recession.

It Didn’t Work In Japan and It Won’t Here Either

Paul Kedrosky

October 21, 2008