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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 74 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABSCISSA (from the
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Lat. abscissus, cut off)  , in the Cartesian
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system of co-ordinates, the distance of a point from the
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axis of y measured parallel to the
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horizontal axis y (axis of x) . Thus PS (or OR) is the
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abscissa of P . The word appears for the first
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time in a Latin
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work written by Stefano degli Angeli (1623-1697), a
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professor of
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mathematics in O/ R
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Rome .

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