Mathematics GCSE
Coordinate
What Coordinate means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Coordinate
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Reference: AQA
A numerical value giving a point's position relative to an axis and the origin; two coordinates locate a point in this plane.
Topics that use Coordinate
- Graphs (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Area under a graph as an accumulated total
- Asymptote
- Asymptotes
- Asymptotes and domain restrictions
- average rate of change
- Chord
- Circle equation centred at the origin
- Coefficient
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