ordinate
See also: Ordinate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ordino, ordinatus. Doublet of ordain.
Pronunciation
- (noun, adjective) IPA(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪnət/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (verb) IPA(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪneɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
ordinate (plural ordinates)
- (geometry) The second of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.
- The point has 3 as its abscissa and 2 as its ordinate.
- (geometry) The vertical line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the ordinate (sense above) is shown.
Hypernyms
- (second of two coordinates): coordinate
- (vertical line): axis
Coordinate terms
Related terms
With prefixes
Translations
y coordinate; second of two coordinates
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vertical axis
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See also
Verb
ordinate (third-person singular simple present ordinates, present participle ordinating, simple past and past participle ordinated)
Translations
to ordain a priest or consecrate a bishop
Derived terms
Translations
arranged regularly in rows; orderly; disposed or arranged in an orderly or regular fashion.
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See also
Italian
Verb
ordinate
- inflection of ordinare:
- second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person plural imperative
- feminine plural past participle
Latin
References
- “ordinate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ordinate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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