cylindrical coordinates

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three coordinates defining the location of a point in three-dimensional space in terms of its polar coordinates (r, θ) in one plane, usually the (x, y) plane, and its perpendicular distance, z, measured from this plane

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Words nearby cylindrical coordinates

cylinder saw, cylinder seal, cylindraceous, cylindrical, cylindrical coordinate, cylindrical coordinates, cylindrical lens, cylindrical projection, cylindroadenoma, cylindroid, cylindroma

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How to use cylindrical coordinates in a sentence

For one, these maps often use narrative to chart the landscape, rather than constraining it to a grid with coordinates.
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If Purisima wins, with no money, the world will have to reconfigure its economic and trade coordinates completely.
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If nothing else, the thing looks amazing, like a little black cylindrical bomb.
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To date the only certainty we have are the geographical coordinates where the aircraft vanished from the radars.
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Eubanks is an assistant athletic director for football and he coordinates on-campus recruiting visits.
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At that time one of his high-pressure puffer-engines, with a cylindrical boiler and internal tube, was working in Staffordshire.
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It was of a cylindrical shape, having a deep zone at the equator, and a containing capacity of about 300 feet.
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He does not recollect the duty the engine performed with the cylindrical boilers.
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When the cigars are dry the paper is taken off, and the bunch retains the cylindrical shape given it.
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The boilers were Trevithick's cylindrical with internal tube, wholly of wrought iron.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick