abscisse

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French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from New Latin abscissa, an ellipsis of abscissa līnea.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ap.sis/
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  • Audio (Paris):(file)

Noun

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abscisse f (plural abscisses)

  1. (mathematics) abscissa (the x coordinate in Cartesian coordinates)
    Coordinate terms: ordonnée, cote
    l’axe des abscissesthe x-axis
    La courbe coupe l’axe des ordonnées en un point d’abscisse égal à 2.
    The curve intersects the y-axis at a point with an abscissa of 2.

Descendants

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  • Turkish: apsis

Further reading

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Latin

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Participle

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abscisse

  1. vocative masculine singular of abscissus

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
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A point in the Cartesian plane; x is the abscissa.

Etymology

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From Latin abscissa (linea) (cut (line)), from abscissus (torn off, cut off), perfect passive participle of abscindō (I tear away; divide), from both ab- (from, away from, off), from ab (from, away from, on, in), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (off, away) + and from scindō (I cut, tear; divide), from Proto-Italic *skindō (to cut, tear, rend, separate), from Proto-Indo-European *skinédti ~ *skindénti (to be cutting off), from *skeyd- (to split, to divide) (with the infix *-né-), an extension of *skey- (to split, dissect) (perhaps with *dʰeh₁- (to do, put, place)), from *sek- (to cut, cut off, sever).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /abˈsɪsːə/, /apˈsɪsːə/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪsːə
  • Hyphenation: ab‧scis‧se

Noun

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abscisse m (definite singular abscissen, indefinite plural abscisser, definite plural abscissene)

  1. (geometry, mathematics) the x coordinate in Cartesian coordinates; abscissa
    Antonym: ordinat
    • 1898, Naturen:
      ordinaterne repræsenterer thermometrets grader, abscisserne aarets maaneder
      the ordinates represent the degrees of the thermometer, the abscissas the months of the year

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