cartesian

What it means

1. not comparableOf, or pertaining to, Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.

   How would a program implementation view be compatible with Cartesian dualism?

   2019, Susan Schneider, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Princeton University Press, page 140

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   Others within the Cartesian tradition took the idea of a light-bearing medium in quite different directions. For instance, in 1690 Christiaan Huygens considered light to be a sequence of pulses traveling at a finite velocity within the medium.

   2014, Peter Pesic, Music and the Making of Modern Science

2. not comparablecartographyOf, or pertaining to, co-ordinates based on mutually orthogonal axes.

   Synonyms: Descartesean, Descartesian, Descartean, Descartian

In a sentence

Following the approach adopted in [2, 3], two orthogonal cartesian reference systems are considered: […].

2009 January 28, Alfio Quarteroni, “Mathematical Models in Science and Engineering”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 56, number 1, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2009, page 18

Where it comes from

1. New LatinCartesiānus
2. EnglishCartesian

From the New Latin Cartesiānus, from Cartesius (“René Descartes”).