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Space is three dimensional. The axes we assign to them are usually called the x, y and z axes. They don't have to be called that - they can be called anything, but that's the usual system.

Additionally, because "up" and "left" and other directions in 3D space are relative ("up" for a person in New York is different than in space than a person in Australia), the x-axis can also mean different directions as well.

BUT, almost always, we expect the axes to represented like this:

picture your computer screen ...

the direction going left and right would be your "x" direction

the direction going up and down would be your "y" direction

the direction going towards you and away from you (going "through" the computer screen would be the "z" direction)

The "axis" is a baseline that starts from an origin, usually designated as zero for ease of use.

Consider the lower left corner of your screen. Let's call that the origin, or 0.

That means horizontal and vertical measurements at that point are at 0.

As you move along the "x-axis" to the right, the horizontal measurement (the distance from 0) is measured. A "5" means you are 5 units from 0.

To answer your question now: it's the measurement of horizontal movement of the distance from zero. Hopefully the boring explanation makes the answer easier to understand.

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