- (a.) Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical.
- (v.t.) To appoint, to regulate; to harmonize.
- (n.) The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured.
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