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She advises women and co- ordinates the efforts of 23 groups assisting women all around Egypt.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2011

By the end of the day, the sand is crisscrossed with a mesh of ordinates, abscissas, curves to account for everything in nature.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

There are two methods of doing this, one by means of a planimeter or averaging instrument, and the other by means of lines called ordinates.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

It is due to this fact that, according to the theory of relativity, the "time" x4, enters into natural laws in the same form as the space co ordinates x1, x2, x3.

From Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Einstein, Albert

Corresponding ordinates of the curves at different temperatures will therefore vary as the fifth power of the temperature, when the curves are plotted on a wave-length base.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various