SEG Y refers to a seismic industry standard data format used for most penetrating acoustic equipment (seismic or subbottom). It was developed by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists to standardize the file format in which seismic data was catalogued. The "Y" component of the acronym reflects the azimuthal component of the main storage base indexing.
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The y-intercept.
The Y doesn't stand for anything. It is part of the word RAY. In fact, the X doesn't stand for anything either. They were called x-rays because the type of radiation was unknown at the time.
y=mx+b m is the slope, b is the y-intercept (where the line will cross the y axis.