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co•or•di•nate or co-or•di•nate/adj., n. koʊˈɔrdənɪt, -ˌneɪt; v. koʊˈɔrdəˌneɪt/USA pronunciation
adj., n., v., -nat•ed, -nat•ing.
adj.
n. [countable]
v. [~ + object]
co•or•di•na•tor, n. [countable]See -ord-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026adj.
- of the same degree;
equal in importance. - Grammarof the same grammatical rank in a construction, as Jack and Jill in the phrase Jack and Jill, or got up and shook hands in the sentence He got up and shook hands. See coordinating conjunction.
n. [countable]
- MathematicsMath. any of the numbers, or pairs of numbers, that point to the position of a point or line by reference to a fixed figure, system of lines, etc.:You feed the coordinates of the target into the computer and it fires the torpedo.
- coordinates, [plural] articles, as of clothing, that harmonize in color, material, or style.
v. [~ + object]
- to arrange the parts of (an organization, activity, etc.) in proper position or sequence;
manage the elements of:She coordinated the relief efforts in the Sudan. - to make the parts of (the body) work together correctly or smoothly:The children suffering from that brain disease could not coordinate their movements.
co•or•di•na•tor, n. [countable]See -ord-.
co•or•di•nate
(adj., n. kō ôr′dn it, -dn āt′;v. kō ôr′dn āt′),USA pronunciation adj., n., v., -nat•ed, -nat•ing.
adj.
n.
v.t.
v.i.
co•or′di•nate•ly, co-or′di•nate•ly, adv.
co•or′di•nate•ness, co-or′di•nate•ness, n.
co•or•di•na•tive, co-or•di•na•tive:
(kō ôr′dn ā′tiv, -ôr′dn ə-),USA pronunciation adj.
adj.
- of the same order or degree;
equal in rank or importance. - involving coordination.
- Mathematicsusing or pertaining to systems of coordinates.
- Grammarof the same rank in grammatical construction, as Jack and Jill in the phrase Jack and Jill, or got up and shook hands in the sentence He got up and shook hands.
n.
- a person or thing of equal rank or importance;
an equal. - Mathematicsany of the magnitudes that serve to define the position of a point, line, or the like, by reference to a fixed figure, system of lines, etc.
- coordinates, articles of clothing, furniture, or the like, harmonizing in color, material, or style, designed to be worn or used together.
v.t.
- to place or class in the same order, rank, division, etc.
- to place or arrange in proper order or position.
- to combine in harmonious relation or action.
v.i.
- to become coordinate.
- to assume proper order or relation.
- to act in harmonious combination.
- co- + (sub)ordinate 1635–45
co•or′di•nate•ness, co-or′di•nate•ness, n.
- 9.See corresponding entry in Unabridged order, correlate.
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- (transitive)
to organize or integrate (diverse elements) in a harmonious operation to place (things) in the same class or order, or (of things) to be placed in the same class or order - (intransitive)
to work together, esp harmoniously - (intransitive)
to take or be in the form of a harmonious order
any of a set of numbers that defines the location of a point in space
See Cartesian coordinates, polar coordinatesa person or thing equal in rank, type, etc
of, concerned with, or involving coordination of the same rank, type, etc of or involving the use of coordinates: coordinate geometry
'coordinates' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
CIA
- Cartesian coordinates
- Department of Transportation
- Interpol
- United States Employment Service
- X, x
- Y, y
- Z, z
- abscissa
- agitprop
- aid
- amplitude
- analytic geometry
- argument
- bilinear
- bull's-eye
- central nervous system
- circle
- coordinate
- coordinator
- corporate
- curl
- curve
- curvilinear coordinate system
- cylindrical coordinates
- differentiable manifold
- dimension
- epoch
- fashion coordinator
- four-dimensional
- galactic coordinates
- generalized coordinates
- gradient
- graph
- grid
- home
- human engineering
- inner product
- invariant
- matrix
- national grid
- oblique coordinates
- offset
- ordered pair
- ordinate
- origin
- parity
- phase diagram
- phase space
- plot