abscissa

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The independent - variable coordinate (usually x) of a point on the Cartesian plane is called the abscissa, and the dependent-variable coordinate (usually y) is called the ordi - nate.

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  1. noun The coordinate representing the position of a point along a line perpendicular to the y-axis in a plane Cartesian coordinate system.

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  • The ordinate is photographic magnitude and the abscissa is days. —  Analog October 1971
  • The abscissa shows the scale factor, the ordinate shows the area of correctly identified contiguous cells minus the area of false negatives and false positives (see text). —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • The spatial frequency of 60-percent contrast sine waves projected onto the sensor surface is plotted on the abscissa and the resultant modulation percentage on the ordinate.
  • PAT = Impact, as the dual entity being measured on the abscissa. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Whereas the real numbers can be represented as all the possible points on an infinitely extended number line, to represent all the complex numbers requires the use of a two dimensional coordinate system, usually with the real components on the horizontal axis (the abscissa) and the imaginary components on the vertical axis (the ordinate). —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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  1. New Latin (līnea) abscissa, (line) cut off, from Latin abscissa, feminine of abscissus, past participle of abscindere, to abscise; see abscise.

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  1. L. (transitive of Greek ἀπολαμβανομένη), abbreviation of recta ex diametro abscissa, line cut off from the diameter; feminine of abscissus, cut off, past participle of abscindere: see abscind.
 

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