What is abscissa?

Abscissa:

Abscissa or the x-coordinate of a point is its distance from the y-axis and the ordinate or the y-coordinate is its distance from the x-axis.

(x, y) are called the coordinates of the point whose abscissa is x and the ordinate is y.

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Updated on: 10-Oct-2022

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