Definition of Ordinates

1. Noun. (plural of ordinate) ¹

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Definition of Ordinates

1. ordinate [n] - See also: ordinate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ordinates

ordinary annuity
ordinary bicycle
ordinary care
ordinary differential equation
ordinary differential equations
ordinary high water mark
ordinary life insurance
ordinary resolution
ordinary seaman
ordinary seamen
ordinary shares
ordinate
ordinated
ordinately
ordinates (current term)
ordinating
ordination
ordinations
ordinative
ordinator
ordinators
ordinaunce
ordinee
ordinees
ordines
ordnance
ordnance stores
ordnances
ordo

Literary usage of Ordinates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Embracing the General by William Chauvenet (1900)
"Transformation of rectangular co-ordinates to a new origin, without changing the system of spherical co-ordinates. The general planes of reference which ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Line Co-ordinates. — In Cartesian co-ordinates (see GEOMETRY, CARTESIAN) the line is determined by any pair of its projecting planes, eg, by the pair x = rz ..."

3. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"Now, these particular co-ordinates are often not those with reference ... It is in a certain transformation of co-ordinates then that the chief difficulty ..."

4. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1865)
"The properties of spherical curves have been studied by means of systems of spherical co-ordinates formed on the model of Cartesian co-ordinates. ..."

5. The Advanced Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies by Edward John Routh (1884)
"Transformation to principal co-ordinates. This method of transforming any ... ( >' where the accents have been dropped from the co-ordinates in 2T as being ..."

6. The Elementary Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid by Edward John Routh (1897)
"It should be noticed that the first of the three determinants in the expression for L' contains only the momenta u, v, Ac. and the co-ordinates. ..."

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