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Answer for the clue "Distances from the y-axis on a graph ", 9 letters:
abscissas

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alt. (plural of abscissa English) n. (plural of abscissa English)

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Abscissa \Ab*scis"sa\, n.; E. pl. Abscissas , L. pl. Absciss[ae] . [L., fem. of abscissus, p. p. 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 ...

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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.