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ORDINATE

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 189 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORDINATE  , in the Cartesian

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system of co-ordinates, the distance of a point from the
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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
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term used by
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Roman surveyors for parallel lines .

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