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Definition: Abscissa |
AbscissaNoun1. The value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abscissa" was first used: 1698. (references) |
Etymology: Abscissa \Ab*scis"sa\, noun; English plural Abscissas, from Latin expression plural Absciss[ae]. [Latin expression, feminine of abscissus, past participle of absindere to cut of. See Abscind.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Abscissa |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Abscissa means the x coordinate on an (x, y) graph; the input of a mathematical function against which the output is plotted.
y is the "ordinate.
See also:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Abscissa."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Measurement | Coordinates, ordinate and abscissa, polar coordinates, latitude and longitude, declination and right ascension, altitude and azimuth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Abscissa |
| English words defined with "abscissa": Absciss, Abscissae, Abscissas, Axis of abscissas ♦ Coordinate ♦ Logarithmic curve. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "abscissa": angle of external friction ♦ Cartesian coordinates, characteristic ash curve, cumulative frequency curve ♦ direct plot ♦ Flood Frequency Curve, Flood Profile ♦ Gantt chart ♦ logarithmic chart ♦ medial test ♦ oblique coordinates ♦ x-coordinate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Abscissa" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (abscissa). |
| "Abscissa" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abscissa" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "abscissa": ordinate and abscissa. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abscissa | 15 |
abscissa ordinate | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "abscissa"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | abshisë. (various references) | |
Arabic | الإحداثي السيني. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | абсциса (absciss). (various references) | |
Chinese | 横坐 (Abscissae). (various references) | |
Czech | úseèka. (various references) | |
Danish | paa abscissen er staalenes chromindhold afsat,paa ordinaten aetsetiderne (the chromium contents of the steels are plotted on the abscissa, the etching times on the ordinate). (various references) | |
Dutch | abscis. (various references) | |
Esperanto | absciso. (various references) | |
Farsi | طول (Length), بعدافقی . (various references) | |
French | abscisse. (various references) | |
German | Abszisse (axis of abscissas, x-coordinate). (various references) | |
Greek | συντεταγμένη (co ordinate, coordinate), τετμημένη. (various references) | |
Hungarian | abszcissza. (various references) | |
Icelandic | láhnit. (various references) | |
Indonesian | absis (abscess). (various references) | |
Italian | ascissa (abscise, abscissae, abscissas). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 横軸 (horizontal axis), 横線 (horizontal line), 横座標 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おうざひょう, おうせ" (accepting a challenge, horizontal line, returning fire), よ"せ" (horizontal line), よ"じく (horizontal axis). (various references) | |
Korean | 횡축 (Abscissae). (various references) | |
Manx | absissey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abscissaay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | abscissa. (various references) | |
Romanian | abscisã (x). (various references) | |
Russian | абсцисса (abscissae). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | apscisa (x-axis). (various references) | |
Spanish | abscisa (abscise). (various references) | |
Swedish | abskissa. (various references) | |
Turkish | apsis (apse, coordinate). (various references) | |
Ukranian | абсциса. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "abscissa": abscissae, abscissas. (additional references) | |
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"Abscissa" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abascissa, abcissa, abscisa, abscissic, abscuss, absissa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "abscissa" (pronounced 'Ab*scis"sa'): Amorosa, Annulosa, Ansa, Aporosa, Balsa, Bolsa, Bursa, Casa, Docoglossa, fossa, Foussa, Ganesa, Gloriosa, Glossa, Hydromedusa, Impresa, Inclusa, Jossa, Juwansa, Keratosa, Lobosa, lyssa, margosa, Medusa, Melissa, mesa, mimosa, Missa, Musa, Nassa, Oquassa, Paraglossa, Physa, Potassa, Ptenoglossa, Raghuvansa, Reticulosa, Rhachiglossa, Rhipidoglossa, Rugosa, Saccoglossa, Sarsa, Sessa, Siliquosa, Tachyglossa, Taenioglossa, Toxoglossa, Ursa, Vanessa, Vibrissa. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-i-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: cassias. | |
-2 letters: assais, basics, cassia, cassis. | |
-3 letters: abaci, assai, basic, basis, bassi, casas, isbas, scabs. | |
-4 letters: abas, asci, baas, bass, bias, cabs, casa, isba, sabs, sacs, sass, scab, sibs, sics. | |
-5 letters: aas, aba, abs, ais, ass, baa, bas, bis, cab, cis, sab, sac, sib, sic, sis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-i-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: abscissae, abscissas, brassicas, scabiosas. | |
+5 letters: contrabassist. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 73 63 69 73 73 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... ... -.-. .. ... ... .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01110011 01100011 01101001 01110011 01110011 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b s c i s s a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0073 0063 0069 0073 0073 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3568856975858567 |
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