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x-axis
[ eks-ak-sis ]
noun
- Also called axis of abscissas. (in a plane Cartesian coordinate system) the axis, usually horizontal, along which the abscissa is measured and from which the ordinate is measured.
- (in a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system) the axis along which values of x are measured and at which both y and z equal zero.
x-axis
noun
- a reference axis, usually horizontal, of a graph or two- or three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system along which the x- coordinate is measured
x-axis
- The horizontal axis of a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system.
- One of the three axes of a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system.
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Imagine a coordinate plane, where the horizontal x-axis is Arbery鈥檚 bed 鈥 above the line, creation, and below it, shame.
The angle between i and the x-axis is 90 degrees.
In May, the governor鈥檚 office apologized after a graph was posted showing a downward trajectory of cases 鈥 but only because the x-axis was not in chronological order.
For example, in the parabola y = x虏 鈥 4x 鈥 5 the two solutions when y = 0 are the symmetrical points r and s, where the parabola crosses the x-axis.
The x-axis is effort; the y-axis is results.
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