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Noun

1. 1
   The axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top and usually shows the range of values of variable dependent on one other variable, or the second of two independent variables.
2. 2
   the vertical axis in a plane coordinate system wordnet

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ordinate

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

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