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  • present tense form of coordinate (3rd person singular).
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coordinates

British  
/ -ˌneɪts, kəʊˈɔːdɪnɪts /

plural noun

  1. clothes of matching or harmonious colours and design, suitable for wearing together Compare separates

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

coordinates Cultural  
  1. A set of numbers, or a single number, that locates a point on a line, on a plane, or in space. If the point is known to be on a given line, only one number is needed to locate it. If the point is known to be on a given plane, two numbers are needed. If the point is known to be located in space, three numbers are needed.


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He manages her doctors’ appointments and medications, coordinates travel to and from hospital stays, and provides her with emotional support.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026

The post read “A new era of PC,” and then listed two numbers which appear to be the coordinates of the Taipei Music Center.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

In order to ship coffee to Europe, Vietnamese and Brazilian suppliers will soon have to supply the GPS coordinates of their plantations.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

The record-smashing Sawe works with a Swedish company called Maurten, which closely coordinates and supplies his race-day nutrition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

He used it to turn figures and shapes into equations and. numbers; with Cartesian coordinates every geometric object—squares, triangles, wavy lines—could be represented by an equation, a mathematical relationship.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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