abscisse

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ap.sis/
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Noun

abscisse f (plural abscisses)

  1. (mathematics) abscissa (the x coordinate in Cartesian coordinates)
    Coordinate terms: ordonnée, cote
    l’axe des abscisses ― the 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

  • → Turkish: apsis

Further reading

Latin

Participle

abscisse

  1. vocative masculine singular of abscissus

Norwegian Bokmål

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A point in the Cartesian plane; x is the abscissa.

Etymology

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

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

Noun

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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