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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 74 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABSCISSA (from the See also:Lat. abscissus, cut off) , in the Cartesian See also:system of co-ordinates, the distance of a point from the See also:axis of y measured parallel to the See also:horizontal axis y (axis of x). Thus PS (or OR) is the abscissa of P. The word appears for the first See also:time in a Latin See also:work written by Stefano degli Angeli (1623-1697), a See also:professor of See also:mathematics in O/ R See also:Rome.

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