Definition of Coordinates

1. Noun. (plural of coordinate) ¹

2. Noun. (plurale tantum humorous) Coordinated clothes. ¹

3. Verb. (third-person singular of coordinate) ¹

4. Noun. (plural of coördinate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coordinates

1. coordinate [v] - See also: coordinate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coordinates

coordinate clause
coordinate convulsion
coordinate covalent bond
coordinate geometry
coordinate regulation
coordinate system
coordinate systems
coordinate term
coordinate terms
coordinated
coordinated enzyme synthesis
coordinated reflex
coordinated universal time
coordinately
coordinateness
coordinates (current term)
coordinating
coordinating(a)
coordinating-conjunction
coordinating conjunction
coordinatingly
coordination
coordination chemistry
coordination compound
coordination number
coordination numbers
coordinational
coordinations
coordinative
coordinatively

Literary usage of Coordinates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Higher Plane Curves: Intended as a Sequel to A Treatise on by George Salmon (1879)
"In what precedes the line-coordinates (f, »7, £) are defined by means of a ... We may say that the trilinear coordinates (£, 97, £) of a line are ..."

2. A Treatise on Conic Sections: Containing an Account of Some of the Most by George Salmon (1904)
"To find the coordinates of the point of intersection of two right lines whose equations are given. Each equation expresses a relation which must be ..."

3. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"109] LINE coordinates 109. The Plücker line coordinates. Two points whose coordinates are determine a line /. The coordinates of the two points determine ..."

4. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1897)
"If the position of a point in space is determined by the rectangular coordinates œ, y, z\ then p, q, r being each of them a given function of a?, y, ..."

5. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1882)
"Choose for axes of coordinates any two great circles OX, OY intersecting at right ... These perpendiculars are not, as in plane coordinates, equal to the ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Trilinear coordinates (to he again referred to) were first used by Bobillier in the ... It is convenient to use these rather than Cartesian coordinates. ..."

7. A Treatise on Gyrostatics and Rotational Motion: Theory and Applications by Andrew Gray (1918)
"We shall suppose therefore that the coordinates «,, *2, ... , are absent from the kinetic energy, and from the function V of the coordinates from which the ..."

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