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CARTESIAN PLANE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plane in which all points can be described in Cartesian coordinates
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("Cartesian plane" is a kind of...):
plane; sheet ((mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Cartesian plane"):
complex plane (a geometric representation of the complex numbers established by the real axis and the orthogonal imaginary axis; it can be thought of as a modified Cartesian plane, with the real part of a complex number represented by a displacement along the x-axis, and the imaginary part by a displacement along the y-axis)
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