1. A part of the diameter or transverse axis of a conic section, intercepted between the vertex or some other fixed point and a semi-ordinate, as O D in fig.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• absise,
• abscise,
• abscisss,
• zbsciss,
• sbsciss,
• wbsciss,
• qbsciss,
• avsciss,
• ansciss,
• ahsciss,
• agsciss,
• abaciss,
• abzciss,
• abxciss,
• abdciss,
• abeciss,
• abwciss,
• absxiss,
• absiss,
• absicss