Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The horizontal axis of a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system.
  • noun One of three axes in a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system.

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  • noun algebraic geometry The axis on a graph that is usually drawn left to right and usually shows the range of values of an independent variable.

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  • noun the horizontal axis in a plane coordinate system

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Examples

  • The value on the y-axis relative to the value on the x-axis. gwjunkie Says:

    Nothing better to do. 2009

  • The point for D&D/other nerds should be under the x-axis.

    Choose you own adventure. 2010

  • Once again, we need a line graph with “religious references” on the x-axis, and “number of comments” on the y.

    Let’s talk about sects. 2010

  • December 18th, 2009 at 12: 32 pm further down the x-axis the line dives all the way down to contempt.

    Fear of the unknown. 2009

  • The graph itself needs to be rotated -90 degrees, so that size is indeed the x-axis and shame the y-axis, but simply switching the labels is ineffective, as it changes (and makes wrong) the meaning of the graph.

    Low culture. 2010

  • Her deft touch rotated the Challenger ninety degrees around its y-axis, and then set the ship spinning around the x-axis as it rushed toward the swooping enemy ship.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • For example, the x-axis of this chart is based on “cash income.”

    Matthew Yglesias » McConnell’s Middle Class 2009

  • Perhaps what your RP scale needs is an identity x-axis and a context y-axis?

    R is for Reticence « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Her deft touch rotated the Challenger ninety degrees around its y-axis, and then set the ship spinning around the x-axis as it rushed toward the swooping enemy ship.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • “Adolescents” can also substitut for “snobs” on the x-axis.

    How wonderful things become guilty pleasures. 2010

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