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Cartesian coordinate system
/ kär-tē′zhən /
- A system in which the location of a point is given by coordinates that represent its distances from perpendicular lines that intersect at a point called the origin. A Cartesian coordinate system in a plane has two perpendicular lines (the x -axis and y -axis); in three-dimensional space, it has three (the x -axis, y -axis, and z -axis).
- Compare polar coordinate system
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