abscisse
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ap.sis/
Audio (file) Audio (Paris) (file)
Noun
abscisse f (plural abscisses)
- (mathematics) the x coordinate in Cartesian coordinates; abscissa
- La courbe coupe l'axe des ordonnées en un point d'abscisse égal à 2.
- The curve intersects the ordinal axis at a point of abscissa equal to 2.
Related terms
- ordonnée
Descendants
- → Turkish: apsis
Further reading
- “abscisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Participle
abscisse
- vocative masculine singular of abscissus
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin abscissa (linea) (“cut (line)”), from abscissus (“torn off, cut off”), perfect passive participle of abscindō (“I tear away; divide”), from both ab- (“from, away from, off”), from ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from scindō (“I cut, tear; divide”), from Proto-Italic *skindō (“to cut, tear, rend, separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *skinédti ~ *skindénti (“to be cutting off”), from *skeyd- (“to split, to divide”) (with the infix *-né-), an extention of *skey- (“to split, dissect”) (Perhaps with *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”)), from *sek- (“to cut, cut off, sever”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abˈsɪsːə/, /apˈsɪsːə/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɪsːə
- Hyphenation: ab‧scis‧se
Noun
abscisse m (definite singular abscissen, indefinite plural abscisser, definite plural abscissene)
- (geometry, mathematics) the x coordinate in Cartesian coordinates; abscissa
- 1898, Naturen:
- ordinaterne repræsenterer thermometrets grader, abscisserne aarets maaneder
- the ordinates represent the degrees of the thermometer, the abscesses the months of the year
- Antonym: ordinat
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Derived terms
- abscisseakse (“abscissa axis”)
Descendants
- → Northern Sami: abskissa
See also
- koordinat (“coordinate”)
References
- “abscisse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “abscisse” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “abscisse” in Store norske leksikon