Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Mathematics Any of a set of two or more numbers used to determine the position of a point, line, curve, or plane in a space of a given dimension with respect to a system of lines or other fixed references.
- noun Informal Directions.
- noun A set of articles, as of clothing or luggage, designed to match or complement one other, as in style or color.
- adjective Of equal importance, rank, or degree.
- adjective Grammar Having equal syntactic status; not subordinate.
- adjective Mathematics Of or based on a system of coordinates.
- adjective Of or relating to a university in which men and women are taught by the same faculty but in single-sex classes or on single-sex campuses.
- intransitive verb To cause to work or function in a common action or effort.
- intransitive verb To make harmonious; harmonize.
- intransitive verb Grammar To link (syntactic units) at an equal level.
- intransitive verb To work or function together harmoniously.
- intransitive verb To form a harmonious combination; match.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of the same rank,
equal . - noun mathematics, cartography A
number representing theposition of apoint along aline ,arc , or similar one-dimensional figure. - noun Something that is equal to another thing.
- verb transitive To
synchronize (activities). - verb transitive To
match (objects, especially clothes).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a number that identifies a position relative to an axis
- verb be co-ordinated
- verb bring into common action, movement, or condition
- adjective of equal importance, rank, or degree
- verb bring order and organization to
- verb bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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(The spatial coordinates here are (x, y, z), and the time coordinate is obviously t).
Archive 2009-03-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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When Sarkozy took France back into NATO's integrated military command last year, for instance, he stayed out of the nuclear planning committee, where the United States and Britain coordinate nuclear weapons policies.
France, Britain sign treaties calling for unprecedented military cooperation Edward Cody 2010
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When Sarkozy took France back into NATO's integrated military command last year, for instance, he stayed out of the nuclear planning committee, where the United States and Britain coordinate nuclear weapons policies.
France, Britain sign treaties calling for unprecedented military cooperation Edward Cody 2010
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The y-coordinate is not transformed because we are only straightening the image based on the tilt of the left and right margins.
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If we prepared an electron in a state with a definite momentum (that's an infinite sine wave), its coordinate is unknowable, and vice versa.
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U.S. scientists say they have determined how widely separated regions of our brain coordinate complex activity.
Slow Brain Waves are Key to Complex Activities | Impact Lab 2006
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It was a local point of view in coordinate space, in contrast to the emphasis on delocalized waves in momentum space, such as
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I'm not sure what to call it-- coordinate, created, recruited, assembled...
Rob Kall: A Bottom Up Virtual Choir to Delight Your Heart and Milk Your Tears Rob Kall 2011
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I'm not sure what to call it-- coordinate, created, recruited, assembled...
Rob Kall: A Bottom Up Virtual Choir to Delight Your Heart and Milk Your Tears Rob Kall 2011
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To Archimedes came a way to calculate density and volume; to Descartes, the idea of coordinate geometry; and to Newton, the law of universal gravity.
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