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Ordinate

noun

The value of a coordinate on the vertical axis.

verb

Appoint to a clerical posts. Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, order.

Bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation. Synonyms: align, coordinate. "Ordinate similar parts"

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"Ordinate" Quotes from Famous Books

... as a real substrate of an erroneous imputation), because an erroneous imputation cannot take place apart from a substrate. But this theory is indefensible. If things were as you describe them, the conscious 'I' would be cognised as co-ordinate with the state of consciousness 'I am consciousness,' just as the shining thing presenting itself to our eyes is judged to be silver. But the fact is that the state of consciousness presents itself as something apart, constituting a distinguishing attribute of the ...

— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut

... co-ordinate in construction, and equally balanced, will find their natural vocal expression in the same pitch and, of course, the pitch varies as the attitude ...

— The Ontario High School Reader • A.E. Marty

... effected by variation and artificial selection. During the process of formation of such breeds as the greyhound or the bulldog, of the race-horse and carthorse, of the fantail pigeon or the otter-sheep, many co-ordinate adjustments have been produced; and no difficulty has occurred, whether the change has been effected by a single variation—as in the last case named—or by slow steps, as in all the others. It seems to be forgotten ...

— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... the past few years to extend and make efficient the means of higher education; to erect schools which shall provide training for the future services required by the community and the State of the more highly gifted of its members, and to co-ordinate the work of the various agencies entrusted with the care and education of ...

— The Children: Some Educational Problems • Alexander Darroch

... been an unfortunate flaw in the magnificent scheme of Insurance that this vital fact was not allowed for, that the old-fashioned notion that treatment rather than prevention is the object of medicine was still perpetuated, and that nothing was done to co-ordinate the Insurance scheme with the existing ...

— Essays in War-Time - Further Studies In The Task Of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

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