Coördinate /(?)/
Co·ör·di·nate
Coördinate
a.
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Equal in rank or order; not subordinate.
Whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many coordinate powers presiding over each country.
Conjunctions joint sentences and coordinate terms.
Phrases & Compounds
- Coordinate adjectives
- adjectives disconnected as regards one another, but referring equally to the same subject.
- Coordinate conjunctions
- conjunctions joining independent propositions.
Coördinate
n.
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A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance.
It has neither coordinate nor analogon; it is absolutely one.
- Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes, called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See Abscissa. (Math.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Cartesian coordinates
- See under Cartesian.
- Geographical coordinates
- the latitude and longitude of a place, by which its relative situation on the globe is known. The height of the above the sea level constitutes a third coordinate.
- Polar coordinates
- coordinates made up of a radius vector and its angle of inclination to another line, or a line and plane; as those defined in (b) and (d) above.
- Rectangular coordinates
- coordinates the axes of which intersect at right angles.
- Rectilinear coordinates
- coordinates made up of right lines. Those defined in (a) and (c) above are called also Cartesian coordinates.
- Trigonometrical coordinates
- elements of reference, by means of which the position of a point on the surface of a sphere may be determined with respect to two great circles of the sphere.
- Trilinear coordinates
- coordinates of a point in a plane, consisting of the three ratios which the three distances of the point from three fixed lines have one to another.