X-axis

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Noun
  1. 1
    The axis on a graph that is usually drawn left to right and usually shows the range of values of an independent variable. analytic
  2. 2
    the horizontal axis in a plane coordinate system wordnet

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abscissa

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"The X-axis is the horizontal axis and the Y-axis is the vertical axis."

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