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ORDINATE

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 189 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
ORDINATE , in the Cartesian
system
  of co-ordinates, the distance of a point from the
horizontal
 
axis
  (
axis
  of x) measured parallel to the axis of y. Thus PR is the ordinate of P. The word appears to have been first used by Rene
Descartes
 , and to be derived from lineae ordinatae, a
term
  used by
Roman
  surveyors for parallel lines. (See
GEOMETRY
 : Ana-
lytical.)


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