2. (noun) base, headquarters.
I reira a ia e mahi ana i mua i tana kōwhiringa i Whangamumu hei papa taunga mōna, i ngā tau tōmua o te tekau tau atu i 1890 (TTR 1996:24). / He worked there before choosing Whangamumu as his base in the early 1890s.
3. (noun) co-ordinate plane (maths).
Ko te taunga te wāhi noho o tētahi mea. E rua ngā momo whakaatu i te taunga ki tētahi papa taunga, pērā i te kauwhata, i te mahere rānei. Ko te takirua raupapa hei whakaatu i te taunga tukutuku. Ko te tawhiti me te ahunga hei whakaatu i te taunga ahuroa (TRP 2010:275). / A co-ordinate is the place where something is located. There are two ways of showing the co-ordinates of a point on a co-ordinate plane such as a graph or a map. Ordered pairs are used to show cartesian co-ordinates. Distance and direction are used for polar co-ordinates (TRP 2010:275).
