CO-ORDINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does co-ordinate mean? 

• CO-ORDINATE (noun)
  The noun CO-ORDINATE has 1 sense:

1. a number that identifies a position relative to an axis

  Familiarity information: CO-ORDINATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CO-ORDINATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A number that identifies a position relative to an axis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

co-ordinate; coordinate

Hypernyms ("co-ordinate" is a kind of...):

number (a concept of quantity involving zero and units)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "co-ordinate"):

Cartesian coordinate (one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes)

polar coordinate (either of two values that locate a point on a plane by its distance from a fixed pole and its angle from a fixed line passing through the pole)

 Context examples 

These kinases translate and co-ordinate the calcium fluctuations into the appropriate cellular responses via phosphorylation.

(Calmodulin Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)