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noun
The coordinates of a point measured from an origin along a horizontal axis from left to right (the x-axis) and along a vertical axis from bottom to top (the y-axis). This can be extended to three-dimensions by the z-axis perpendicular to the x- and y-axes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: coordinate, co-ordinate
Narrower terms: dimension, abscissa, ordinate
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