CARTESIAN COORDINATE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cartesian coordinate mean? 

• CARTESIAN COORDINATE (noun)
  The noun CARTESIAN COORDINATE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: CARTESIAN COORDINATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARTESIAN COORDINATE (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)