polar coordinates

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a pair of coordinates for locating a point in a plane by means of the length of a radius vector, r, which pivots about the origin to establish the angle, θ, that the position of the point makes with a fixed line. Usually written (r, θ)See also Cartesian coordinates, spherical coordinates

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Words nearby polar coordinates

polar bond, polar cap, polar cataract, polar circle, polar coordinate, polar coordinates, polar coordinate system, polar distance, polar equation, polar front, Polari

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How to use polar coordinates in a sentence

The weather, the conditions, you can imagine it—a polar bear in a desert, with a swimming pool 50 centimetres deep.
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Shaked spoke in these generalities initially—referring to two sets of people, two polar opposites on a pendulum.
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Sykes suspects that the hairs come from either an unrecognized bear species, or an unknown hybrid of polar bear and brown bear.
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She would leave every day of shooting during the polar vortex just grinning from ear-to-ear.
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For one, these maps often use narrative to chart the landscape, rather than constraining it to a grid with coordinates.
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Long before that, however, the sun had come back to gladden the Polar regions, and break up the reign of ancient night.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
The same would be the case if the polar axis of one sphere stood precisely at right angles to that of the other.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Thus the wide habitability of the earth is an effect arising from the inclination of its polar axis.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Let us conceive a particle of air situated immediately over the earth's polar axis.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
On the equatorial side this air is moving more rapidly than it is on the polar side.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler