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coördinate
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coördinate, a. [Pref. co- + L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare to regulate. See Ordain.].
Equal in rank or order; not subordinate. [1913 Webster]
"Whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many coördinate powers presiding over each country." [1913 Webster]
"Conjunctions joint sentences and coördinate terms." [1913 Webster]
coördinate, v. t.
- To make coördinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coördinate ideas in classification. [1913 Webster]
- To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to coördinate muscular movements. [1913 Webster]
- to be co-ordinated; as, These activities co-ordinate well. [WordNet 1.5]
coördinate, n.
- A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance. [1913 Webster]"It has neither coördinate nor analogon; it is absolutely one." [1913 Webster]
- 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 coördinate axes and coördinate planes. See Abscissa." Coördinates are of several kinds, consisting in some of the different cases, of the following elements, namely:
(a) (Geom. of Two Dimensions) The abscissa and ordinate of any point, taken together; as the abscissa PY and ordinate PX of the point P (Fig. 2, referred to the coördinate axes AY and AX.(b) Any radius vector PA (Fig. 1), together with its angle of inclination to a fixed line, APX, by which any point A in the same plane is referred to that fixed line, and a fixed point in it, called the pole, P.(c) (Geom. of Three Dimensions) Any three lines, or distances, PB, PC, PD (Fig. 3), taken parallel to three coördinate axes, AX, AY, AZ, and measured from the corresponding coördinate fixed planes, YAZ, XAZ, XAY, to any point in space, P, whose position is thereby determined with respect to these planes and axes.(d) A radius vector, the angle which it makes with a fixed plane, and the angle which its projection on the plane makes with a fixed line line in the plane, by which means any point in space at the free extremity of the radius vector is referred to that fixed plane and fixed line, and a fixed point in that line, the pole of the radius vector." [1913 Webster]
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