COORDINATING
Verb
coordinating
present participle of coordinate
Adjective
coordinating
That coordinates
coordinating conjunction
Source: Wiktionary
COORDINATE
Co*ör"di*nate, a. Etym: [Pref. co- + L. ordinatus, p.p. of ordinare
to regulate. See Ordain.]
Definition: Equal in rank or order; not subordinate.
Whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many
coördinate powers presiding over each country. Law.
Conjunctions joint sentences and coördinate terms. Rev. R. Morris.
Coördinate adjectives, adjectives disconnected as regards ane
another, but referring equally to the same subject.
– Coördinate conjunctions, conjunctions joining independent
propositions. Rev. R. Morris.
Co*ör"di*nate , v. t. [imp. & p.p. Coördinated; p.pr. & vb.n.
Coördinating.]
1. To make coördinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to
coördinate ideas in classification.
2. To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate
and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to
harmonize; as, to coördinate muscular movements.
Co*ör"di*nate, n.
1. A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more
persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance.
It has neither coördinate nor analogon; it is absolutely one.
Coleridge.
2. pl. (Math.)
Definition: Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the
position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to
certain fixed lines, or planes, called coördinate axes and coördinate
planes. See Abscissa.
Note: Coördinates are of several kinds, consisting in some of the
different cases, of the following elements, namely: (a) (Geom. of Two
Dimensions) The abscissa and ordinate of any point, taken together;
as the abscissa PY and ordinate PX of the point P (Fig. 2, referred
to the coördinate axes AY and AX. (b) Any radius vector PA (Fig. 1),
together with its angle of inclination to a fixed line, APX, by which
any point A in the same plane is referred to that fixed line, and a
fixed point in it, called the pole, P. (c) (Geom. of Three
Dimensions) Any three lines, or distances, PB, PC, PD (Fig. 3), taken
parallel to three coördinate axes, AX, AY, AZ, and measured from the
corresponding coördinate fixed planes, YAZ, XAZ, XAY, to any point in
space, P, whose position is thereby determined with respect to these
planes and axes. (d) A radius vector, the angle which it makes with a
fixed plane, and the angle which its projection on the plane makes
with a fixed line line in the plane, by which means any point in
space at the free extremity of the radius vector is referred to that
fixed plane and fixed line, and a fixed point in that line, the pole
of the radius vector. Cartesian coördinates. See under Cartesian.
– Geographical coördinates, the latitude and longitude of a place,
by which its relative situation on the globe is known. The height of
the above the sea level constitutes a third coördinate.
– Polar coördinates, coördinates made up of a radius vector and its
angle of inclination to another line, or a line and plane; as those
defined in (b) and (d) above.
– Rectangular coördinates, coördinates the axes of which intersect
at right angles.
– Rectilinear coördinates, coördinates made up of right lines.
Those defined in (a) and (c) above are called also Cartesian
coördinates.
– Trigonometrical or Spherical coördinates, elements of reference,
by means of which the position of a point on the surface of a sphere
may be determined with respect to two great circles of the sphere.
– Trilinear coördinates, coördinates of a point in a plane,
consisting of the three ratios which the three distances of the point
from three fixed lines have one to another.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition