Sentence examples for abscissa from inspiring English sources

The conventional clinical audiogram plots hearing level with low dB values (normal hearing) at the top of the chart and raised levels (reduced hearing) closer to the abscissa.

The listener's hearing threshold level (hearing level), in decibels (dB), is plotted on a chart known as a pure-tone audiogram, with hearing level plotted on the ordinate (vertical axis) as a function of signal frequency on the abscissa (horizontal axis).

He began with a curve and considered the slope of its tangent corresponding to each value of the abscissa.

He then defined an auxiliary curve by the condition that its ordinate be equal to this slope and showed that the area under the auxiliary curve corresponding to a given abscissa is equal to the rectangle whose sides are unity and the ordinate of the original curve.

In De Analysi, for example, Newton introduces a notation for the "momentary increment" (moment)—evidently meant to represent a moment or instant of time of the abscissa or the area of a curve, with the abscissa itself representing time.

This "moment"—effectively the same as the infinitesimal quantities previously introduced by Fermat and Barrow Newton denotes by o in the case of the abscissa, and by ov in the case of the area.

The word for the first two lines is "palimpsest"; for the next six lines, "abscissa".

But then the point (dx, dx2) must lie on the axis of abscissae, which means that dx2 = 0. Now Leibniz could retort that that this argument depends crucially on the assumption that the portion of the curve between abscissae 0 and dx is indeed straight.

But if one grants, as Leibniz does, that that there is an infinitesimal straight stretch of the curve (a side, that is, of an infinilateral polygon coinciding with the curve) between abscissae 0 and e, say, which does not reduce to a single point then e cannot be equated to 0 and yet the above argument shows that e2 = 0.