x-axis

1. 1.

   the horizontal axis in a plane coordinate system

   Broadercoordinate axis

Questions about x-axis

What does x-axis mean?

x-axis means "the horizontal axis in a plane coordinate system".

How many syllables are in x-axis?

x-axis has 2 syllables and divides as x-ax-is under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is x-axis a common word?

x-axis 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.