coordinate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a number that identifies a position relative to an axis
    co-ordinate.
  2. verb bring order and organization to
    organize; organise.
    • Can you help me organize my files?
  3. verb bring into common action, movement, or condition
    • coordinate the painters, masons, and plumbers
    • coordinate his actions with that of his colleagues
    • coordinate our efforts
  4. verb be co-ordinated
    • These activities coordinate well
  5. verb bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation
    ordinate; align.
    • align the wheels of my car
    • ordinate similar parts
  6. adjective satellite of equal importance, rank, or degree

WordNet

Co*ör"di*nate adjective (Also<
  • Coordinate
  • Coördinate
)
Etymology
Pref. co- + L. ordinatus, p.p. of ordinare to regulate. See Ordain.
Definitions
  1. 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.
    Rev. R. Morris.
Co*ör"di*nate transitive verb (Also<
  • Coordinate
  • Coördinate
)
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Coördinated; present participle & verbal noun Coördinating
Definitions
  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 noun (Also<
  • Coordinate
  • Coördinate
)
Definitions
  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.) 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. this note refers to an accompanying diagram ✍ 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.

Webster 1913