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y-axes
Variant of y-axis
noun pl. y-axes
- the vertical, or more nearly vertical, axis in a plane Cartesian coordinate system, along which the ordinate is measured
- a similar axis that is perpendicular to the x-axis and the z-axis of a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system
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