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ordinate
Alternative clues for the word ordinate
Word definitions for ordinate in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ordinate \Or"di*nate\, a. [L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare. See Ordain .] Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical. ``A life blissful and ordinate.'' --Chaucer. Ordinate figure (Math.), a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mathematics , ordinate most often refers to that element of an ordered pair which is plotted on the vertical axis of a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system , as opposed to the abscissa . The term can also refer to the vertical axis (typically ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin ordinatus , past participle of ordinare "arrange, set in order" (see ordain ). Related: Ordinately .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
arranged regularly in rows; orderly; dispose or arranged in an orderly or regular fashion. n. (context mathematics English) the value of a coordinate on the vertical (Y) axis v 1 (context transitive English) to ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop 2 ...
Usage examples of ordinate.
Kyros disappeared from the great screen and was replaced by a grid on which each radiational component of the strange shell of energy was plotted on the ordinate against the abscissa of time.
She paced restlessly while he worked at making a graph with time as the abscissa and the code numbers for ordinates.
Such a line has for abscissa the distance of a load from one end of a girder, and for ordinate the bending moment or shear at any given section, or on any member, due to that load.
By the end of the day, the sand is crisscrossed with a mesh of ordinates, abscissas, curves to account for everything in nature.
I found that with each mixture there was a time of exposure which would produce the deepest blue, that with over-exposure the blue gradually turned gray, and that if a curve should be plotted, the abscissas of which should represent the time of exposure, and the ordinates of which should represent the intensity of the blue the curves drawn would have approximately an elliptical form, so that if one knew the exact time of exposure which would give the best result with any mixture, one might deviate two or three minutes either way from that time without producing a noticeable result.
I simply gave its co ordinates to my platoon sergeant and told him to have somebody check it.
I got down my old text for analytical geometry, from Thebes High School, measured some ordinates, abscissas, and slopes - plugged in the figures and wrote down the equation.
Waterhouse slashes an abscissa and an ordinate onto the board, then sweeps out a bell-shaped curve.