polar coordinate

A form of polar coordinates — The coordinates of a point in a plane, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to a line joining the point to the origin.

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Meanings

nounpolar coordinate (plural polar coordinates)

plural polar coordinates

  1. singularsingular of polar coordinates
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