# coordinate
## English
### Alternative forms

* coördinate, co-ordinate

### Pronunciation
#### Noun, adjective

* (Canada) IPA: /koʊˈɔɹdənət/
* (UK) IPA: /kəʊˈɔːdɪnɪt/, (fast speech) /ˈkwɔːdɪnɪt/
* (US) IPA: /koʊˈɔɹdənɪt/, /ˈkɔɹdənɪt/
** Audio (US):(file)

#### Verb

* (Canada) IPA: /koʊˈɔɹdəˌneɪt/
* (UK) IPA: /kəʊˈɔːdɪˌneɪt/, (fast speech) /ˈkwɔːdɪnˌneɪt/
* (US) IPA: /koʊˈɔɹdəˌneɪt/, /ˈkɔɹdəˌneɪt/
** Audio (US):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin coōrdinātus, perfect passive participle of coōrdinō (“arrange together”), from co- +‎ ōrdinō, equivalent to co- +‎ ordinate. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. See also ordain and ordinate.

#### Adjective

coordinate (not comparable)
* Of the same rank; equal.
    Hyponym: cohyponymous
    two coordinate terms
** 1745, Edmund Law, Considerations on the State of the World with regard to the Theory of Religion:whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many co-ordinate powers presiding over each country

##### Usage notes

* The usual pronunciation of ‘oo’ is /uː/ or /ʊ/. The dieresis in the spelling coördinate emphasizes that the second o begins a separate syllable. However, the dieresis is becoming increasingly rare in US English typography, and was never common elsewhere, so the spelling coordinate predominates.

##### Derived terms

* hexacoordinate
* incoordinate
* nonacoordinate
* noncoordinate
* pentacoordinate
* tetracoordinate
* tricoordinate

### Etymology 2

From a substantivation of the above adjective, see Etymology 1 and -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more. Compare French coordonné.

#### Noun

coordinate (plural coordinates)
* (mathematics, cartography, astronomy) A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure.
    Give me your coordinates and we'll come and rescue you.
* Something that is equal to another thing.
** 1851, John C. Calhoun, A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States‎:These are coordinates; because each, in the sphere of its powers, is equal to, and independent of the others; and because the three united make the government.
* (humorous, in the plural) Coordinated clothes.

##### Derived terms

* bicoordinate
* brainordinate
* Cartesian coordinate
* chronocoordinate
* color coordinate
* color coordinate system
* coordinate axis
* coordinate bond
* coordinate chart
* coordinate clause
* coordinate covalent bond
* coordinate map
* coordinate plane
* coordinate system
* coordinate term
* coordinatewise
* coordinatization
* eigencoordinate
* equicoordinate
* geocoordinate
* grayordinate
* homogeneous coordinate
* multicoordinate
* paleocoordinate
* Plücker coordinate
* space polar coordinate
* supercoordinate
* Talairach coordinate

##### Related terms

* axis

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Medieval Latin coōrdinātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Compare French coordonner.

#### Verb

coordinate (third-person singular simple present coordinates, present participle coordinating, simple past and past participle coordinated)
* (transitive) To place in the same order or rank.
    Antonym: subordinate
* (transitive, intransitive) To synchronize (activities).
    It can be difficult to coordinate movement of both legs after an operation.
    I was playing tennis for the first time, and it was difficult to coordinate.
* (transitive, intransitive) To match (objects, especially clothes).
    The outfit you're wearing doesn't coordinate.
** 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times‎:As a fashion editor, I pay obsessive attention to my appearance. Even when I pretend to look insouciant, each look has been painfully considered. The right earrings, coordinating shoes, the careful symmetry of a well-balanced look — these are things that please me. The gym has crushed my sartorial ambitions.

##### Derived terms

* color-coordinate
* color coordinate
* colour-coordinate
* colour coordinate
* coordinating conjunction
* coordinatingly
* coordination, co-ordination
* coordinatize
* coordinator, co-ordinator
* decoordinate
* discoordinate
* miscoordinate
* nocoordinating
* overcoordinate
* pentacoordinating

##### Translations
#### See also

* coordinately, coördinately
* coordinateness, coördinateness
* coordinative, coördinative
* uncoordinated, uncoördinated

### Further reading

* “coördinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “coordinate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* decoration, Coronatide, coronadite, carotenoid

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

coordinate
* feminine plural of coordinato

#### Participle

coordinate f pl
* feminine plural of coordinato

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

coordinate f
* plural of coordinata

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

coordinate
* inflection of coordinare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Anagrams

* cordoniate

## Spanish
### Verb

coordinate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of coordinar combined with te