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If, then, the line, _B D_ {1} _ be drawn, it is conceded that all the material within the area, _A B D_ {1} G C A_, causes direct pressure against or upon the structure, _G C A_, the vertical lines being the ordinates of pressure due to weight, and the horizontal lines (qualified by certain ratios) being the abscissas of pressure due to thrust.

Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910 J. C. Meem

To avoid the long and time-consuming laying out of a boat by ordinates and abscissas, I have constructed a handy apparatus, by which it is possible without much trouble to obtain the sections of a vessel graphically and sufficiently accurate.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 Various

If we represent these two sections graphically by referring the magnetic moments as ordinates and the current intensities as abscissas to two co-ordinate axes (Fig. 2), we shall obtain for the first force the curve, O A B, which, starting from A, becomes sensibly parallel with the axis of X, and for the second the right line, O D.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various

In permeability curves the total magnetization of the given pieces of iron are plotted as abscissas, while the corresponding permeabilities are plotted as ordinates.

Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910

In these curves the ordinates represent the total magnetization = B =, while the abscissas represent the magnetizing force = H =.

Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. George Patterson 1910

The preceding tables, in which the ordinates represent the number of correct reproductions and the abscissas the age, are interesting.

Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885

He does not see the combinations of the abscissas and ordinates very clearly.

The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Never does a curve portray two or more ordinates for a single abscissa, although one of them (the parabola, curve D) has two abscissas for all positive ordinates.

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Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various

Pokier knew how to find safety among the indoor abscissas and ordinates of graphs: finding the points he needed not by running the curve itself, not up on high stone and vulnerability, but instead tracing patiently the xs andjys, P (at-), W (m/sec), Ti (" K), moving always by safe right angles along the faint lines ....

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978