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See also: coördinate and co-ordinate
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Noun, adjective
- (Canada) IPA(key): /koʊˈɔɹdənət/
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊˈɔːdɪnɪt/, (fast speech) /ˈkwɔːdɪnɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /koʊˈɔɹdənɪt/, /ˈkɔɹdənɪt/
- Verb
Etymology 1
From Medieval Latin coōrdinātus, perfect passive participle of coōrdinō (“arrange together”), from co- + ōrdinō, equivalent to co- + ordinate. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. See also ordain and ordinate.
Adjective
coordinate (not comparable)
- Of the same rank; equal.
- Hyponym: cohyponymous
- two coordinate terms
- 1745, Edmund Law, Considerations on the State of the World with regard to the Theory of Religion:
- whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many co-ordinate powers presiding over each country
Usage notes
- The usual pronunciation of ‘oo’ is /uː/ or /ʊ/. The dieresis in the spelling coördinate emphasizes that the second o begins a separate syllable. However, the dieresis is becoming increasingly rare in US English typography, and was never common elsewhere, so the spelling coordinate predominates.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From a substantivation of the above adjective, see Etymology 1 and -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more. Compare French coordonné.
Noun
coordinate (plural coordinates)
- (mathematics, cartography, astronomy) A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure.
- Give me your coordinates and we'll come and rescue you.
- Something that is equal to another thing.
- 1851, John C. Calhoun, A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United StatesWikisource:
- These are coordinates; because each, in the sphere of its powers, is equal to, and independent of the others; and because the three united make the government.
- (humorous, in the plural) Coordinated clothes.
Derived terms
- bicoordinate
- brainordinate
- Cartesian coordinate
- chronocoordinate
- color coordinate
- color coordinate system
- coordinate axis
- coordinate bond
- coordinate chart
- coordinate clause
- coordinate covalent bond
- coordinate map
- coordinate plane
- coordinate system
- coordinate term
- coordinatewise
- coordinatization
- eigencoordinate
- equicoordinate
- geocoordinate
- grayordinate
- homogeneous coordinate
- multicoordinate
- paleocoordinate
- Plücker coordinate
- space polar coordinate
- supercoordinate
- Talairach coordinate
Related terms
Translations
mathematics, cartography: a number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure
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coordinated clothes
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Etymology 3
From Medieval Latin coōrdinātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Compare French coordonner.
Verb
coordinate (third-person singular simple present coordinates, present participle coordinating, simple past and past participle coordinated)
- (transitive) To place in the same order or rank.
- Antonym: subordinate
- (ambitransitive) To synchronize (activities).
- It can be difficult to coordinate movement of both legs after an operation.
- I was playing tennis for the first time, and it was difficult to coordinate.
- (ambitransitive) To match (objects, especially clothes).
- The outfit you're wearing doesn't coordinate.
- 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:
- As a fashion editor, I pay obsessive attention to my appearance. Even when I pretend to look insouciant, each look has been painfully considered. The right earrings, coordinating shoes, the careful symmetry of a well-balanced look — these are things that please me. The gym has crushed my sartorial ambitions.
Derived terms
Translations
to place in the same order or rank
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to synchronize
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to match
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See also
Further reading
- “coördinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “coordinate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
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Italian
Etymology 1
Adjective
coordinate
Participle
coordinate f pl
Etymology 2
Noun
coordinate f
- plural of coordinata
Etymology 3
Verb
coordinate
- inflection of coordinare:
Anagrams
Spanish
Verb
coordinate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of coordinar combined with te
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