y-axis

1. 1.

   the vertical axis in a plane coordinate system

   Broadercoordinate axis

Questions about y-axis

What does y-axis mean?

y-axis means "the vertical axis in a plane coordinate system".

How many syllables are in y-axis?

y-axis has 2 syllables: y-ax-is. The stress falls on "y-ax".

Is y-axis a common word?

y-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.