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Definition of Coordinate

1. Adjective. Of equal importance, rank, or degree.

2. Verb. Bring order and organization to. "Can you help me organize my files?"

3. Noun. A number that identifies a position relative to an axis.

4. Verb. Bring into common action, movement, or condition. "Coordinate our efforts"

5. Verb. Be co-ordinated. "These activities coordinate well"

6. Verb. Bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation. "Ordinate similar parts"

Definition of Coordinate

1. Adjective. Of the same rank, equal. ¹

2. Noun. (context: mathematics cartography) A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure. ¹

3. Noun. Something that is equal to another thing. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To synchronize (activities). ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To match (objects, especially clothes). ¹

6. Verb. (alternative spelling of coordinate) ¹

7. Noun. (alternative spelling of coordinate) ¹

8. Adjective. (alternative spelling of coordinate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coordinate

1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Medical Definition of Coordinate

1. 1. Any of the scales or magnitudes that serve to define the position of a point. 2. To perform the act of coordination. Origin: see coordination (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coordinate

cooptation cooptations coopted coopting cooption cooptions coopts coorbital coorbitals coordain

coordained coordaining coordains coordinance coordinances coordinate (current term) coordinate axis coordinate bond coordinate bonds coordinate clause

coordinate convulsion coordinate covalent bond coordinate geometry coordinate regulation coordinate system coordinate systems coordinate term coordinate terms coordinated coordinated enzyme synthesis

Literary usage of Coordinate

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

1. A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane (1903)
"The Intermediate coordinate Sentence. [i 693—1698. THE INTERMEDIATE coordinate SENTENCE, 1693. A sentence coordinate in form with another sentence is often ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"RECTANGULAR coordinate SYSTEM OF SURVEYING CITIES. 283. GENERAL DESCRIPTION. ... In a coordinate system two arbitrary lines are chosen for coordinate axes, ..."

3. The Nature and Sources of the Law by John Chipman Gray, Roland Gray (1921)
"How great is the authority of a decision in the court which made it, or in a court of coordinate jurisdiction? 2. Is there any court which is absolutely ..."

4. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"This especially finds application to coordinate sentences, but becomes apparent ... coordinate principal or dependent sentences may also stand beside each ..."

5. Higher Mathematics for Students of Chemistry and Physics: With Special by Joseph William Mellor (1902)
"Changing the coordinate Axes. In plotting the graph of any function, ... It is frequently necessary to pass from one system of coordinate axes to another. ..."

6. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The analogous four-coordinate chloride 1 also reacts with an additional mole of carbon monoxide,32 but the resulting colorless five-coordinate dicarbonyl ..."

7. Descriptive Geometry by Ervin Kenison, Harry Cyrus Bradley (1917)
"These two planes are known as the horizontal and vertical coordinate planes, ... Position of the Observer with Reference to the coordinate Planes. ..."

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