ordinate
To align a series of objects.
Adjective
- Observant of order, keeping within set limits; moderate, temperate
- Conforming to order or rule, ordered, regulated, regular, orderly.
- ordinate power
- Arranged regularly in a row or rows.
- Of a figure: having all its sides and angles equal.
- Relating to an ordered series of ratios.
- ordinate proportionality; ordinate proportion
Origin
Partly inherited from Middle English ordinat(e) (adjective and participle), partly directly borrowed from Latin ōrdinātus, perfect passive participle of ōrdinō, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Doublet of ordain. Sense 5 of the verb is from a back-formation from ordination.
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disordinate ordinate axis ordinate dimension ordinately semiordinate unordinate
Noun
- The second of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.
- Coordinate term: abscissa
- The point (3,2) has 3 as its abscissa and 2 as its ordinate.
Hypernyms: coordinate
- The vertical line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the ordinate (sense above) is shown.
Hypernyms: axis
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Verb
- To align a series of objects.
- To ordain a priest, or consecrate a bishop.
Synonyms: ordain
- To order or regulate; to control, govern, or direct.
- To institute, establish; to ordain; to predestine.
- To subject to the mathematical operation of ordination.
- past participle of ordinate