abscissa
Portuguese, noun/a.bisˈsi.sɐ/
abscissa is spelled A-B-S-C-I-S-S-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese, the 164,273rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abscissa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “abscissa (first of two coordinates)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “primeira coordenada cartesiana de um ponto do plano ou do espaço; distância entre um ponto do plano e o eixo…”.
What does abscissa mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineabscissa (first of two coordinates)
Coordinate term: ordenada
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. primeira coordenada cartesiana de um ponto do plano ou do espaço; distância entre um ponto do plano e o eixo vertical (eixo das ordenadas) 2. distância entre um ponto do espaço e o plano lateral de projeção
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of abscissa
- abscissas plural
- abcissa alternative Portugal
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce abscissa?
- Brazil /a.bisˈsi.sɐ/
- Brazil /abˈsi.sɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to abscissa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abscissa in Portuguese?
abscissa appears about once in every 32 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).