ABSCISSA (abscissae)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: abscissae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does abscissa mean? 

• ABSCISSA (noun)
  The noun ABSCISSA has 1 sense:

1. the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis

  Familiarity information: ABSCISSA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABSCISSA (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)

 Context examples 

The abscissa of this plot shows relative distance from the line's location.

(Line Spread Function, NCI Thesaurus)

A plot whose ordinate is a quantifier, such as some measure of activity concentration, at points around an annulus in a slice, and whose abscissa is in degrees.

(Circumferential Profile Plot, NCI Thesaurus)