X-AXIS | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of x-axis in English x-axisnoun [ C usually singular ]   mathematics   specialized uk /ˈeksˌæk.sɪs/ us /ˈeksˌæk.sɪs/ Add to word list Add to word list the line of figures or coordinates that are arranged from left to right on a graph or map: In the graph the x-axis is price and the y-axis is quantity. The general rule is that the variable you control is plotted on the x-axis and the variable that changes as a result is plotted on the y-axis.   Hans Surfer/Moment/GettyImagesSynonym horizontal axis

• They needed a better method of specifying dates along the x-axis.
• The x-axis is complexity, ranging from uncomplex to very complex.
• The horizontal axis (x-axis) shows the distance travelled horizontally by the wave.

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X-axis | American Dictionary

X-axisnoun [ C ] us/ˈeksˌæk·sɪs/ plural X-axes us/ˈeksˌæk·siz/ Add to word list Add to word list mathematics a horizontal line that forms one side of a coordinate plane (= region formed by two number lines) (Definition of x-axis from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

x-axis | Business English

x-axisnoun [ S ]   GRAPHS & CHARTS uk /ˈeksˌæksɪs/ us Add to word list Add to word list the horizontal line of figures along the bottom of a graph, often representing time: The x-axis represents expenditure and the y-axis profit. See also horizontal axisCompare y-axis (Definition of x-axis from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of x-axis

x-axis The y-axis in the plot is the average score and the x-axis represents the different variant sets. From the Cambridge English Corpus The more labeled training sentences the parser receives (x-axis) the better its performance on test data (y-axis). From the Cambridge English Corpus For a sufficiently large negative anisotropy, the cumulative effect can evenly suppress the non-resonant filamentation mode along x-axis. From the Cambridge English Corpus In each plot, the magnitude of the intercept is plotted along the y-axis, and the country-level variable along the x-axis. From the Cambridge English Corpus We need to compute emission just along the x-axis. From the Cambridge English Corpus The x-axis depicts time from critical stimulus onset (which occurs at the vertical bar), while the y-axis depicts voltage. From the Cambridge English Corpus The x-axis depicts time from critical stimulus onset (indicated by the vertical bar), while the y-axis depicts amplitude in microvolts. From the Cambridge English Corpus Subjects are only shown on the x-axis when they occurred in at least four obligatory contexts. From the Cambridge English Corpus To visualize this, we generated new graphs by plotting the rank of a candidate's score on the x-axis. From the Cambridge English Corpus In the new and the old stable, letters under the x-axis correspond to treatments as listed in the text. From the Cambridge English Corpus Helminth species are ranked from most to least abundant on the x-axis. From the Cambridge English Corpus There are no constraints on the qualitative magnitudes, since the point at which f crosses the x-axis is not + known. From the Cambridge English Corpus The dotted line in the plane of the x-axis represents the cutoff level for significant probability of coiled-coil structure. From the Cambridge English Corpus The reason for the slight distortion of the symmetry of the radiation pattern with respect to the x-axis is the asymmetry of the meander coil. From the Cambridge English Corpus The regions along the x-axis at which the u- and v -components change signs correspond to the stagnation points on the shear layers. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of x-axis These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of x-axis, X-axis? What is the pronunciation of X-axes?

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