rectangular coordinates

plural noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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The two classes obviously represent respectively systems of polar and rectangular coordinates.

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These four marks serve to turn the plate exactly 90 degrees so as to measure rectangular coordinates.

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I also made myself master of the theories of rectangular coordinates and some of the differential processes applying to them, which only a few of the best of the university mathematicians then wholly possessed.

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