原点 – Vocabulary details

原げん点てん

Meanings

Noun

1. starting point; origin; beginning

少すこし整せい理りして、原げん点てんに戻もどってみた方ほうがいいかも知しれない。It might be better to sort things out a little and go back to the starting point.

2. origin (of coordinate axes)

このグラフは原げん点てんを通とおる直ちょく線せんだ。This graph is a straight line through the origin.

3. datum point

Alt. forms

原げん点てん

97%

ゲンテン

Kanji used

原

original

点

point

Pitch accent

げ

んてん

げ

んてん

Used in: 715

Composed of

原げん

original; primitive; primary; fundamental; proto-

点てん

dot; spot; mark (in an exam, etc.); grade; point (in a game); score; point

Used in vocabulary (5 in total)

原げん点てんに返かえる

to go back to the starting point

原げん点てんに帰かえる

to go back to the starting point

経けい緯い度ど原げん点てん

standard datum of geographic coordinates; point of origin of longitude and latitude; geodetic datum

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Examples (2 in total)

このグラフは原げん点てんを通とおる直ちょく線せんだ。

This graph is a straight line through the origin.

少すこし整せい理りして、原げん点てんに戻もどってみた方ほうがいいかも知しれない。

It might be better to sort things out a little and go back to the starting point.