abscisseakse

Norwegian Bokmål

Et punkt i det Kartesiske kooridnatsystemet; x-aksen er abscisseaksen — A point in the Cartesian plane; x-axis is the abscissa axis.

Etymology

abscisse ‎ akse, first part from Latin abscissa (linea) (“cut (line)”), from abscissus (“torn off, cut off”), perfect passive participle of abscindō (“I tear away; divide”), from both ab- (“from, away from, off”), from ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) and from scindō (“I cut, tear; divide”), from Proto-Italic *skindō (“to cut, tear, rend, separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *skinédti ~ *skindénti (“to be cutting off”), from *skeyd- (“to split, to divide”) (with the infix *-né-), an extension of *skey- (“to split, dissect”) (Perhaps with *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put, place”)), from *sek- (“to cut, cut off, sever”). Last part from German Achse (“axis, axle”), from Middle High German ahse, from Old High German ahsa (“axis, axle”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahsu (“axle”), from Proto-Germanic *ahsō (“axle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis, axle”), from *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abˈsɪsːəaksə/, /apˈsɪsːəaksə/

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• Rhymes: -aksə
• Hyphenation: ab‧scis‧se‧ak‧se

Noun

abscisseakse m (definite singular abscisseaksen, indefinite plural abscisseakser, definite plural abscisseaksene)

1. (geometry, mathematics) the x-axis in Cartesian coordinates

Related terms

• abscisse (“abscissa”)

References

• “abscisseakse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “abscisseakse” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “abscisse” in Store norske leksikon