Look up: abscissa

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   abscissa
   [n] - the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis
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   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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   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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   abscissa
   the horizontal co-ordinate in a two-dimensional rectangular or oblique co-ordinate system Category: Mathematics
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   Abscissa
   Definition (keystage 3) The x co-ordinate in a Cartesian co-ordinate system. Example (keystage 3) The abscissa of (6,5) is 6.
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   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, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coördinate axes. When referred to two intersecting axes, one of them called the axis of absc ...
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   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 of the point is the distance cut off from the axis o ...
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   abscissa
   noun the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis
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   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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    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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    abscissa
    In a plane cartesian coordinate system, the horizontal axis (x). Cf. ordinate [L. ab-scindo, pp. -scissus, to cut away from]
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    abscissa
    The x-coordinate, or horizontal distance from the y-axis, in a system of Cartesian coordinates. Compare with ordinate.
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    abscissa
    abscissa: see Cartesian coordinates.
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