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Definition of Ordinates
1. ordinate [n] - See also: ordinate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ordinates
Literary usage of Ordinates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Embracing the General by William Chauvenet (1900)
"Transformation of rectangular co-ordinates to a new origin, without changing the
system of spherical co-ordinates. The general planes of reference which ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Line Co-ordinates. — In Cartesian co-ordinates (see GEOMETRY, CARTESIAN) the line
is determined by any pair of its projecting planes, eg, by the pair x = rz ..."
3. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"Now, these particular co-ordinates are often not those with reference ... It is
in a certain transformation of co-ordinates then that the chief difficulty ..."
4. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1865)
"The properties of spherical curves have been studied by means of systems of
spherical co-ordinates formed on the model of Cartesian co-ordinates. ..."
5. The Advanced Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies by Edward John Routh (1884)
"Transformation to principal co-ordinates. This method of transforming any ...
( >' where the accents have been dropped from the co-ordinates in 2T as being ..."
6. The Elementary Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid by Edward John Routh (1897)
"It should be noticed that the first of the three determinants in the expression
for L' contains only the momenta u, v, Ac. and the co-ordinates. ..."
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