Picture of kink in graph. Share with your friends Share 0 Shruti Tyagi answered this Dear student, When the intervals do not start from 0, they start from bigger numbers like 40, 50,80 ...So, to skip the numbers from 0 to that point from where the graph actually starts is represented by a kink. It is a zig-zag sign near the origin that shows that the scale interval started from that point, just that the numbers after it were skipped. Regards 1 View Full Answer