ornate

adj 1: rich in decorative detail [syn: {embellished}, {ornamented}]

2: marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative

details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out

of the rule of Plato"-John Milton [syn: {flowery}]

ordinate

The y-coordinate on an (x,y) graph; the output

of a function plotted against its input.

x is the "{abscissa}".

See {Cartesian coordinates}.

(1997-07-08)