rectangular coordinates

British  

plural noun

1. the Cartesian coordinates in a system of mutually perpendicular axes

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Example Sentences

Parametric equations can describe complicated curves that are difficult or perhaps impossible to describe using rectangular coordinates.

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In the xy-plane, the right triangle shown in Figure 2.89 provides the key to transformation between cylindrical and Cartesian, or rectangular, coordinates.

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Figure 5.81 The transformation from rectangular coordinates to cylindrical coordinates can be treated as a change of variables from region G in rθz-space to region D in xyz-space.

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Figure 1.35 shows a spiral in rectangular coordinates.

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In oblique as well as rectangular coordinates equations of the second degree represent conics.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various