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CARTESIAN COORDINATE
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Cartesian coordinate" is a kind of...):
co-ordinate; coordinate (a number that identifies a position relative to an axis)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Cartesian coordinate"):
dimension (one of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space)
abscissa (the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis)
ordinate (the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis)
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