The size of a minimal vertex cover of a graph. A '''vertex cover''' of a graph $G$ is a subset $S$ of the vertices of $G$ such that each edge of $G$ contains at least one vertex of $S$. Finding a minimal vertex cover is an NP-hard optimization problem.

The matching number of a graph. For a graph $G$, this is defined as the maximal size of a '''matching''' or '''independent edge set''' (a set of edges without common vertices) contained in $G$.

The number of positive eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of the graph.

The number of zero columns in the nullspace of a graph.

The biclique partition number of a graph. The biclique partition number of a graph is the minimum number of pairwise edge disjoint complete bipartite subgraphs so that each edge belongs to exactly one of them. A theorem of Graham and Pollak [1] asserts that the complete graph $K_n$ has biclique partition number $n - 1$.

The achromatic number of a graph. This is the maximal number of colours of a proper colouring, such that for any pair of colours there are two adjacent vertices with these colours.

The lettericity of a graph. Let $D$ be a digraph on $k$ vertices, possibly with loops and let $w$ be a word of length $n$ whose letters are vertices of $D$. The letter graph corresponding to $D$ and $w$ is the graph with vertex set $\{1,\dots,n\}$ whose edges are the pairs $(i,j)$ with $i < j$ sucht that $(w_i, w_j)$ is a (directed) edge of $D$.

The connected partition number of a graph. This is the maximal number of blocks of a set partition $P$ of the set of vertices of a graph such that contracting each block of $P$ to a single vertex yields a clique. Also called the pseudoachromatic number of a graph. This is the largest $n$ such that there exists a (not necessarily proper) $n$-coloring of the graph so that every two distinct colors are adjacent.

The number of cut vertices of a graph. A cut vertex is one whose deletion increases the number of connected components.