Term: ordinate: the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis
Broader: cartesian coordinate: one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes | Unrelated: rock gunnel: slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
Broader: cartesian coordinate: one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes | Unrelated: affine: (anthropology) kin by marriage