ABSCISSA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: abscissae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("abscissa" is a kind of...):

Cartesian coordinate (one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes)

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