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the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Abscissa
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(from the Lat. abscissus, cut off), in the Cartesian system of co-ordinates, the distance of a point from the axis of y measured parallel to the horizontal axis (axis of x). Thus PS (or OR) is the abscissa of P. The word appears for the first time in a Latin work written by Stefano degli Angeli (1623-1697), a professor of mathematics in Rome. (See GEOMETRY, � Analytical.)
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Abscissa'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/abscissa.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Abscissa'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/abscissa.html. 1910.
