ordinate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis
  2. verb appoint to a clerical posts
    consecrate; ordain; order.
    • he was ordained in the Church
  3. verb bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation
    coordinate; align.
    • align the wheels of my car
    • ordinate similar parts

WordNet

Or"di*nate adjective
Etymology
L. ordinatus, p. p. of ordinare. See Ordain.
Definitions
  1. Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical. "A life blissful and ordinate." Chaucer.
Or"di*nate noun
Definitions
  1. (Geom.) The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured. ✍ The ordinate and abscissa, taken together, are called coördinates, and define the position of the point with reference to the two axes named, the intersection of which is called the origin of coördinates. See Coordinate. in a typical two-dimensional plot, viewed on a plane graph in its normal orientation with perpendicular axes, the ordinate is the vertical axis; when the axes are labeled as x and y, it is the y-axis
Or"di*nate transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize. Bp. Hall.

Webster 1913