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abscissa

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abscissa /ab·scis·sa/ (ab-sis´ah) the horizontal line in a graph along which are plotted the units of one of the factors considered in the study. Symbol .
abscissa
[absis′ə]
Etymology: L, ab, away; scindere, to cut
a point on a horizontal Cartesian coordinate plane measured from the y-axis (or vertical axis) running perpendicular to the plane, or the x-axis.

abscissa
the horizontal line in a graph along which are plotted the units of one of the factors considered in the study, as time in a time-temperature study. The other line is called the ordinate.


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of the elongation to break data yields a master curve (figure 9) with shifted aging time at 80[degrees]C on the abscissa.
0], the minimum is equal to zero; d) the difference between the abscissa of the maximum and of the minimum is of the order of [bar.
Technicians enter the superimposed stress onto the abscissa, which is determined by the residual and thermal stress as well as the alternating bending stress onto the ordinate.
 
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