Cartesian coordinates

British  

plural noun

1. a system of representing points in space in terms of their distance from a given origin measured along a set of mutually perpendicular axes. Written ( x,y,z ) with reference to three axes

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Example Sentences

It was on one such morning—as the story goes—while dreamily watching the path of a fly flitting around on the ceiling, that he came up with the xy plane of Cartesian coordinates.

From The New Yorker

Instead of using stodgy Cartesian coordinates, Black Rock City is organized along polar coordinates, making its coordinate system unique among massive fire-themed desert art festivals.

From Scientific American

In particular, he taught his dad that the first step in making a graph is to draw what's called Cartesian coordinates.

From Scientific American

Hence if we take, as coordinates on the surface, the Cartesian coordinates of corresponding points on the plane, the geodesics must have linear equations.

From Project Gutenberg

The method of Cartesian coordinates must then be discarded, and replaced by another which does not assume the validity of Euclidean geometry for rigid bodies.*

From Project Gutenberg