Absciss

Acceptable For Game Play - UK word list

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the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See abscissa.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A part cut off; specifically, in conic sections, an abscissa (which see). Also abscisse.
    • Word Usage
    "George Crabb in 1823 defined co-ordinates now dropping its hyphen as “a term applied to the absciss and ordinates when taken in connexion,” later better known as the magnitudes that determine the position of a point; geographers and navigators still later used coordinates to describe the use of longitude and latitude in locating a spot on the globe."
    Variant
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