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y-Axis

\begin{figure}\begin{center}\BoxedEPSF{YAxis.epsf}\end{center}\end{figure}

The vertical axis of a 2-D plot in Cartesian Coordinates. Physicists and astronomers sometimes call this axis the Ordinate, although that term is more commonly used to refer to coordinates along the $y$-axis.

See also Abscissa, Ordinate, x-Axis, z-Axis




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1999-05-26