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abscissa

(n): the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis
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8 months ago brtom said:

Four years on, my personal declaration of, and against, lexical ignorance runs from "abscissa" (Cormac McCarthy) to "zugunruhe" (William Fiennes, who admittedly provided a helpful contextual explanation of this, the migratory restlessness of birds). James Meek

11 months ago kewpid said:

The x-coordinate.

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