Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun abscissa

1 sense of abscissa

Sense 1
abscissa -- (the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis)
       => Cartesian coordinate -- (one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes)