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A number that identifies a position relative to an axis
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coordinate
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Word definitions for coordinate in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of equal importance, rank, or degree [also: co-ordinating , co-ordinates , co-ordinated , co-ordinate ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, in the mathematical sense, especially with reference to the system invented by Descartes; from coordinate (adj.). Hence, coordinates as a means of determining a location on the earth's surface (especially for aircraft), attested by 1960.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Of the same rank; equal. n. 1 (context mathematics cartography English) A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure. 2 Something that is equal to another thing. v 1 (context transitive English) To synchronize ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES coordinating conjunction COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN action ▪ We will support the creation by the police of new Racial attacks Squads to monitor and coordinate action against racially-motivated attacks. ▪ The ...
Usage examples of coordinate.
He punched up the new navigation coordinates, and checked his afterburner fuel reserve.
Appointed by Mother Aglee as Overlady of Five, charged with coordinating the peaceful integration of the aliens into the life of the planet, she sought out Bertt, explained all to him, asked respectfully for his assistance.
He would then pass these coordinates to Dotensk, who would in turn give the information to Kamil for his Amn AI-Khass hunter teams.
The GPS grid coordinates you gave me, I gave to Kamil, and he called his Amn AI-Khass detachment commander right there at the border outpost.
We sit side-by-side on the sofa watching the calm, perfectly-coifed anchorperson coordinate her own commentary with cuts to correspondents in various parts of North America and abroad.
A Central Planning Council, on which he sat, determined the proper economic mix and crops grown, coordinating with other Anchors as well, but otherwise the farms were communally held and run affairs, autonomous and sharing in the profits by getting what they wanted or needed from other communes in exchange for what they produced.
It contained over two million sets of alleged portal coordinates, implying more than one million arteria, presumably linked in a single enormous network.
I want you to coordinate the astrometeorological and photoradiographic sections.
But Bracewell thought that a space probe might send us a star map, and since the stars are placed at random in the sky the delay times could be graphical coordinates.
He utilized the underwater telephone to coordinate this process with the USS Billfish, and soon afterward the Avalon was free from its mother vessel and totally on its own.
Makiem have effectively allied and coordinated with the Cebu and the Agitar.
The Marine plan, which called for coordination among multiple commands, was overly complicated and badly coordinated.
Of course, he would be able, computerlike, to judge where the section would end, and so end the song at the right place to coordinate.
The woodwork was white, the counters red, and a window seat built into a side bay was filled with plump pillows and a neatly folded quilt, all in coordinating hues.
For a vehicle intended to deorbit and deliver them to a specific ground coordinate with only a fifty-meter margin of error, the whole arrangement seemed totally inadequate.