The abscissae represent intervals of time, the ordinates the measured lengths of the growing filament. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The abscissae, or horizontal distances, are temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit from 30 degrees below zero, at the left, to 220 degrees above, at the right. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
To find these speeds we load the brake to different weights, and plot the resulting speeds and horse powers as abscissae and ordinates producing the curve, BB. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
Now Leibniz could retort that that this argument depends crucially on the assumption that the portion of the curve between abscissae 0 and dx is indeed straight. From Wordnik.com. [Continuity and Infinitesimals] Reference
The speeds are plotted as abscissae, and the electrical work absorbed in watts divided by 746 as ordinates; then with a series-wound motor we obtain the curve, EE. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
Unquestionably the best method of taking data is by the use of co-ordinate paper and a plotting of the data with temperatures and time intervals as ordinates and abscissae. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
The curves in Fig. 34, however, give the furnace draft necessary to burn various kinds of coal at the combustion rates indicated by the abscissae, for a general set of conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
Deviations being proportionate to abscissae, and measured solar energies to ordinates, we have here (1) the distribution of energy in the prismatic, and (2) its distribution in the normal spectrum. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
If from the diagram, Fig. 1, we plot a curve the abscissae of which represent exciting current, and the ordinates magnetic moment of the soft iron core, we find that a considerable portion of the curve is almost a straight and only slightly inclined line. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference
It is a paper you cannot make head nor tail of, and at the end come five or six long folded diagrams that open out and show peculiar zigzag tracings, flashes of lightning overdone, or sinuous inexplicable things called “smoothed curves” set up on ordinates and rooting in abscissae — and things like that. From Wordnik.com. [The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth] Reference
But if one grants, as Leibniz does, that that there is an infinitesimal straight stretch of the curve (a side, that is, of an infinilateral polygon coinciding with the curve) between abscissae 0 and e, say, which does not reduce to a single point then e cannot be equated to 0 and yet the above argument shows that e2 = 0. From Wordnik.com. [Continuity and Infinitesimals] Reference
Fig. 4 shows two curves; the one drawn in a full line is obtained by plotting the deflection in degrees of the needle of a potential indicator as abscissae, and the corresponding electromotive forces measured simultaneously on a standard instrument as ordinates; the dotted line shows what this curve would be with an ordinary tangent galvanometer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884] Reference
(dx, dx2) must lie on the axis of abscissae, which means that dx2 = 0. From Wordnik.com. [Continuity and Infinitesimals] Reference
For the lines of beauty there are no abscissae and ordinates; circles and ellipses are not described by means of their algebraical formulae. From Wordnik.com. [On War — Volume 1] Reference
But the essence of the Cartesian geometry (although Descartes did not give it this form) was to regard every plane curve as described by the movement of a point on a movable straight line which is displaced, parallel to itself, along the axis of the abscissae -- the displacement of the movable straight line being supposed to be uniform and the abscissa thus becoming representative of the time. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
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