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A reference axis in a two-dimensional rectangular Cartesian coordinate system; by convention, the vertical axis (y-axis) of a bivariate (x, y) scatterplot. This terminology was used by, and may have been introduced by, the British mathematician, (Sir) James Ivory (1765–1842) (Ivory 1809; Miller 2015a).
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Howarth, R.J. (2017). Y. In: Dictionary of Mathematical Geosciences . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57315-1_25
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