Literary notes about Ordinate (AI summary)
The term “ordinate” is employed across literary texts to indicate the notion of equal standing or relationship among elements in diverse fields. In writing style and grammar, for instance, it is used to show that ideas or clauses share similar weight and form ([1], [2], [3]), while in mathematical and scientific contexts it denotes a specific value or position—such as the ordinate of a graph lying along a designated axis ([4], [5], [6]). Moreover, in discussions of governance or philosophy, “ordinate” has been used metaphorically to underscore the equality of components within a system, whether it is the balanced interplay of state branches or the coexisting aspects of human thought and emotion ([7], [8], [9], [10]). Even in narratives describing physical or cognitive actions, the word captures the challenge of aligning disparate parts harmoniously ([11], [12], [13]).
- Express co-ordinate ideas in similar form.
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk - 4. Place a comma before a conjunction introducing a co-ordinate clause.
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk - Co-ordinate conjunctions like or , either , nor ,
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton - At p the amount of error or deviation is op ; and the number of such deviations is represented by the line or ordinate pa .
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read - The ordinate of the curve represents the intensity of response, and the abscissa the time ( fig. 1 ).
— from Response in the Living and Non-Living by Jagadis Chandra Bose - 6 They will be deduced from the property, previously demonstrated, of the derivative of the ordinate with respect to the abscissa.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The anomaly of the Constitution was the absence of provision for the judicature, the third co-ordinate branch of the government.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The Constitution intended that the three great branches of the government should be co-ordinate, and independent of each other.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson - Its oneness and manyness are co-ordinate.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - The great point is to notice that the oneness and the manyness are absolutely co-ordinate here.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - There was activity and movement everywhere, but he could co-ordinate nothing, he was simply bewildered.
— from Tommy by Joseph Hocking - Then, when he could not co-ordinate his muscles to write, he dictated to his nurse.
— from Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle - "The devil," I thought, finding it more and more difficult to co-ordinate my thoughts, "he seems to be as unstrung as I."
— from Atlantida by Pierre Benoît
