Usually means: Horizontal coordinate in a graph.
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  6. Abscissa, abscissa: Wordnik
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  8. abscissa: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  15. abscissa: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  17. Abscissa: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ABSCISSA: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
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  20. abscissa: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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  23. abscissa: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. abscissa: Merriam-Webster

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  1. abscissa: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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  1. abscissa: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Abscissa: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. abscissa: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. Abscissa: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

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(Note: See abscissae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (abscissa)

noun:  (geometry) The first of the two terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of fixed rectilinear coordinate (Cartesian coordinate) axes.
noun:  (geometry) The horizontal line representing an axis of a Cartesian coordinate system, on which the abscissa (sense above) is shown.

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