abscissas
- plural of abscissa.
Example Sentences
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By the end of the day, the sand is crisscrossed with a mesh of ordinates, abscissas, curves to account for everything in nature.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Conversely, knowing the volumetric ratios, compression pressure can be read directly by proceeding from the scale of abscissas vertically to the curve and thence horizontally to the scale of ordinates.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred
The preceding tables, in which the ordinates represent the number of correct reproductions and the abscissas the age, are interesting.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
He does not see the combinations of the abscissas and ordinates very clearly.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
We take now for the axis of abscissas the diameter PQ, and the conjugate diameter for the axis of ordinates.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman
