Abscissa and ordinate Abscissa and ordinate In mathematics, the abscissa (; plural "abscissae" or "abscissæ" or "abscissas") and the ordinate are respectively the first and second coordinate of a point in a coordinate system. The abscissa of a point is the signed measure of its projection on the primary axis, whose absolute value is the distance between the projection and the origin of the axis, and whose sign is given by the location on the projection relative to the origin (before: negative; after: positive). The ordinate of a point is the signed measure of its projection on the secondary axis, whose absolute value
Graph of a function should be taken into account. The graph of a function on its own doesn't determine the co-domain. It is common to use both words, function and graph of a function, since even if considered the same object, they indicate viewing it from a different angle. Given a mapping formula_1, in other words a function formula_2 together with its domain formula_3 and co-domain formula_4, the graph of the mapping is the set which is a subset of formula_6. The graph of the function formula_2 is the same set formula_8, which is, in the abstract definition of a function, the same as