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Nana Kato described <<...a rectangular table with blocks on
its right and front sides. These blocks are used for locating a
tray on the front right corner of the table (against which a tray
is fitted). The right-side block is parallel to the Y axis, the
front-side block to the X axis. If I were to name these blocks
using "X" or "Y" references, is the right-side block (parallel to
the Y axis) called "Y block" or "X block"?>>
I think the use of the X and Y axes is probably more technical
than you need unless it's something like a computer-assisted
manufacturing setup, in which the programmers need to
specify the X and Y coordinates for a manufacturing robot.
You didn't define the context, but simple English is probably
best: simply refer to blocks that fit along the "right and front
sides of the table". You could then refer to these as the right
and front blocks, respectively.
Roberts: "The text tells us that he was at least 30. It's a little hard to
think of him as an abused son." Kornstein: "Well, it may show that he was
learning disabled if he was still in school." Roberts: "It just shows that
he was studying law." (From: The Elsinore Appeal: People v. Hamlet)
