ordinate

Borrowed from Latin ordino, ordinatus. Doublet of ordain.

• (noun, adjective) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪnət/

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• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː(ɹ)dɪneɪt/

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ordinate (plural ordinates)

1. (geometry) The second of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.

   The point ${\displaystyle (3,2)}$ has 3 as its abscissa and 2 as its ordinate.

2. (geometry) The vertical line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the ordinate (sense above) is shown.

• (second of two coordinates): coordinate
• (vertical line): axis

• abscissa

• abscissa

ordinate (third-person singular simple present ordinates, present participle ordinating, simple past and past participle ordinated)

1. (transitive, uncommon) to ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop

   Synonym: (much more common) ordain

2. (transitive) to align a series of objects

ordinate (comparative more ordinate, superlative most ordinate)

1. arranged regularly in rows; orderly; disposed or arranged in an orderly or regular fashion.

• inordinate

• andorite, arointed, deration, nadorite, rationed, read into

ordinate f

1. plural of ordinata

ordinate f pl

1. feminine plural of ordinato

ordinate

1. inflection of ordinare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

• dentario, indorate, iterando, nodriate, ridonate, trenodia

ōrdināte

1. vocative masculine singular of ōrdinātus

• “ordinate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ordinate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.