What is the definition of X-axis and Y-axis?

Question

please help! What is the definitions for those two things?

Cant find the definitions anywhere else.

Answer 1

Two axes at right angles to each other forming a plane. The vertical axis defined as 'y', the horizontal as 'x', which can define any point on the plane.

Answer 2

I guess that wikipedia isn't working tonight - wait, let me check for you.

Hmmm, seems to be working fine now.

And when I searched on "x axis" I got a whole section on the Cartesian Co-ordinate system.

Its amazing what you can learn by just a little reading.

Answer 3

The X axis is the horizontal axis of a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. The Y axis is the vertical axis.