Look up: abscissa

1. abscissa
   Type: Term Pronunciation: ab-sis′ă Definitions: 1. In a plane cartesian coordinate system, the horizontal axis (x).
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2. abscissa
   [n] - the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis
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3. Abscissa
   The x coordinate on an (x, y) graph. The input of a function against which the output is plotted. y is the ordinate.The sign convention is that measurements to the right from the axis of ordinates are positive, measurements to the left negative. See also: Ordinate.
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4. abscissa
   the horizontal co-ordinate in a two-dimensional rectangular or oblique co-ordinate system Category: Mathematics
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5. Abscissa
   Ab·scis'sa noun ; E. plural Abscissas , Latin plural Abscissæ . [ Latin , fem. of abscissus , past participle of absindere to cut of. See Abscind .] (Geom.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, ...
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6. abscissa
   <geometry> One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes. ... When referred to two intersecting axes, one of them called the axis of abscissas, or of X, and the other the axis of ordinates, or of Y, the abscissa o...
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7. abscissa
   noun the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis
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8. abscissa
   (ab-sis´ә) the horizontal line in a graph along which are plotted the units of one of the variables considered in the study, as time in a time-temperature study. The other line is called the ordinate.
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9. Abscissa
   • (n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes.
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10. abscissa
    (mathematics) The horizontal or x coordinate on an (x, y) graph; the input of a function against which the output is plotted. The vertical or y coordinate is the 'ordinate'. See Cartesian coordinates. (1997-07-08)
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11. Abscissa
    The usage of the word abscissa is first recorded in 1659 by Stefano degli Angeli, a mathematics professor in Rome, according to Moritz Cantor. Soon thereafter, Leibniz used the term extensively in Latin in his Mathematische Schriften (1692), after which it became a standardized mathematical term. T...
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12. abscissa
    The x-coordinate, or horizontal distance from the y-axis, in a system of Cartesian coordinates. Compare with ordinate.
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13. abscissa
    abscissa: see Cartesian coordinates.
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14. Abscissa
    In co-ordinate geometry, the abscissa is the x-coordinate of a point (the horizontal distance of that point from the vertical or y-axis). For example, a point with the coordinates (9, 6) has an abscissa of 9.
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15. abscissa
    In coordinate geometry, the x-coordinate of a point – that is, the horizontal distance of that point from the vertical or y-axis. For example, a point with the coordinates (4, 3) has an abscissa of 4. The y-coordinate of a poin...
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16. abscissa
    the name given to the horizontal axis in a set of two-dimensional coordinates. Commonly referred to as the x-axis.
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