The X-axis is the horizontal axis and the Y-axis is the vertical axis.
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Y-axis
Synonyms for "y-axis" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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20 translations across 14 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- ординатна ос noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
- ос y noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
Dutch
1 entries- y-as noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
Finnish
1 entries- y-akseli noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
French
2 entries- axe des ordonnées noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
- axe des y noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
German
1 entries- Y-Achse noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
Italian
2 entries- asse delle y noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
- asse y noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
Japanese
1 entries- Y軸 noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
Korean
1 entries- Y축 noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
Norwegian
1 entries- y-akse noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
Polish
2 entries- oś rzędnych noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
- oś y noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
Russian
2 entries- ось y noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
- ось ордина́т noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
Swedish
1 entries- y-axel noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
Tagalog
1 entries- taluhog-y noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
Turkish
2 entries- y ekseni noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
- y-ekseni noun (axis on a graph that is usually drawn from bottom to top)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Let's find the equation that shifts the parabola y=x²−4x+7 three spaces on the x-axis and -2 spaces on the y-axis.
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