CARTESIAN PLANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cartesian plane mean? 

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

1. a plane in which all points can be described in Cartesian coordinates

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARTESIAN PLANE (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)