ordinate

1. 1.

   the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis

   BroaderCartesian coordinate

Other forms of ordinate

plural

ordinates·

past tense

ordinated·

present participle

ordinating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ordinate

What does ordinate mean?

ordinate means "appoint to a clerical posts". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ordinate?

ordinate has 3 syllables: or-di-nate. The stress falls on "or".

What is another word for ordinate?

Close synonyms include ordain, consecrate, order, align, coordinate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ordinate a common word?

ordinate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.