Ordinate Definition

ôrdn-ĭt, -āt
ordinates
adjective
Arranged in regular rows, as the spots on the wings of an insect.
American Heritage
noun
ordinates
The vertical Cartesian coordinate on a plane, measured from the x-axis along a line parallel with the y-axis to point P.
Webster's New World

(mathematics) The value of a coordinate on the vertical (Y) axis.

Wiktionary
verb

To ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop.

Wiktionary

To align a series of objects.

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Other Word Forms of Ordinate

Noun

Singular:
ordinate
Plural:
ordinates

Origin of Ordinate

  • Middle English properly ordered from Latin ōrdinātus past participle of ōrdināre to set in order from ōrdō ōrdin- order ar- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ordinate Sentence Examples

  • The hourly values are derived from smoothed curves, the object being to get the mean ordinate for a 60-minute period.

  • Two sections can be distinguished, the Rhizophysina, with long tubular coenosarc-bearing ordinate cormidia, and Physalina, with compact coenosarc-bearing scattered cormidia.

  • We take a fixed line OX, usually drawn horizontally; for each value of X we measure a length or abscissa ON equal to x.L, and draw an ordinate NP at right angles to OX and equal to the corresponding value of y .

  • In mechanics, the amplitude of a wave is the maximum ordinate.

  • This implies the treatment of a plane or solid figure as being wholly comprised between two parallel lines or planes, regarded by convention as being vertical; the figure being generated by an ordinate or section moving at right angles to itself through a distance which is called the breadth of the figure.

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Words Starting With

OORORD

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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