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Ordinate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Regular; methodical. An ordinate figure is one whose sides and angles are equal.

Ordinate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In geometry and conic sections, a line drawn from any point of the circumference of an ellipsis or other conic section, perpendicularly across the axis to the other side.

2. An ordinate is a line drawn perpendicular to the axis of a curve and terminating the curvilinear space.

3. Ordinates of a curve, right lines parallel to one another, terminated by the curve, and bisected by a right line called the diameter.

Ordinate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To appoint. [Not used.]

Ordinate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical.

Ordinate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured.

Ordinate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize.

Ordinately [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a regular methodical manner.

Ordinately [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In an ordinate manner; orderly.