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nates (encz) | nates,hýždě			Zdeněk Brož |  
Nates (gcide) | Nates \Na"tes\, n. pl. [L., the buttocks.]
    1. (Anat.)
       (a) The buttocks.
       (b) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side
           of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic
           lobes.
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    2. (Zool.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
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nates (wn) | nates
     n 1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
          deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
          your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
          arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can,
          fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister,
          posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern,
          seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom,
          behind, derriere, fanny, ass] |  
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dominates (mass) | dominates
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carbonates (encz) | carbonates,uhličitany			Jiří Šmoldas |  
coordinates (encz) | coordinates,koordinuje	v:		Zdeněk Brožcoordinates,souřadnice	n:		Zdeněk Brož |  
discriminates (encz) | discriminates,diskriminuje	v:		Zdeněk Brož |  
dominates (encz) | dominates,dominuje	v:		Zdeněk Broždominates,ovládá	v:		Zdeněk Broždominates,vládne			Zdeněk Brož |  
eliminates (encz) | eliminates,eliminuje	v:		Zdeněk Broželiminates,odstraňuje	v:		Zdeněk Brož |  
homogenates (encz) | homogenates,			 |  
joint committee on the remuneration of executive directors and their alternates (encz) | Joint Committee on the Remuneration of Executive Directors and their
 Alternates,			 |  
lares and penates (encz) | lares and penates,			 |  
originates (encz) | originates,vyvolává	v:		Zdeněk Brožoriginates,vzniká	v:		Zdeněk Brož |  
paginates (encz) | paginates,stránkuje	v:	3. os. j. č.	J. Polach |  
terminates (encz) | terminates,ukončuje	v:		Zdeněk Brož |  
unfortunates (encz) | unfortunates,nešťastníci	n: pl.		Zdeněk Brož |  
Annates (gcide) | Annats \An"nats\, Annates \An"nates\, n. pl. [See Ann.] (Eccl.
    Law)
    The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently
    paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England,
    they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings.
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Axes of coordinates in a plane (gcide) | Axis \Ax"is\, n.; pl. Axes. [L. axis axis, axle. See Axle.]
    A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body,
    on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line
    passing through a body or system around which the parts are
    symmetrically arranged.
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    2. (Math.) A straight line with respect to which the
       different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged;
       as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone,
       that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the
       center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight
       line passing through the center.
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    3. (Bot.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal
       support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the
       central line of any body. --Gray.
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    4. (Anat.)
       (a) The second vertebra of the neck, or {vertebra
           dentata}.
       (b) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is
           prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first
           vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process
           or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head
           to turn upon.
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    5. (Crystallog.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in
       describing the position of the planes by which a crystal
       is bounded.
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    6. (Fine Arts) The primary or secondary central line of any
       design.
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    Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the
       strata slope downward on the two opposite sides.
 
    Synclinal axis, a line from which the strata slope upward
       in opposite directions, so as to form a valley.
 
    Axis cylinder (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central
       substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also axis band,
       axial fiber, and cylinder axis.
 
    Axis in peritrochio, the wheel and axle, one of the
       mechanical powers.
 
    Axis of a curve (Geom.), a straight line which bisects a
       system of parallel chords of a curve; called a {principal
       axis}, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it
       divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the
       parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has
       two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two
       axes of the ellipse are the major axis and the {minor
       axis}, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the
       transverse axis and the conjugate axis.
 
    Axis of a lens, the straight line passing through its
       center and perpendicular to its surfaces.
 
    Axis of a microscope or Axis of a telescope, the straight
       line with which coincide the axes of the several lenses
       which compose it.
 
    Axes of co["o]rdinates in a plane, two straight lines
       intersecting each other, to which points are referred for
       the purpose of determining their relative position: they
       are either rectangular or oblique.
 
    Axes of co["o]rdinates in space, the three straight lines
       in which the co["o]rdinate planes intersect each other.
 
    Axis of a balance, that line about which it turns.
 
    Axis of oscillation, of a pendulum, a right line passing
       through the center about which it vibrates, and
       perpendicular to the plane of vibration.
 
    Axis of polarization, the central line around which the
       prismatic rings or curves are arranged. --Brewster.
 
    Axis of revolution (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line
       about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the
       several points of the line or plane shall describe circles
       with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes
       perpendicular to it, the line describing a surface of
       revolution, and the plane a solid of revolution.
 
    Axis of symmetry (Geom.), any line in a plane figure which
       divides the figure into two such parts that one part, when
       folded over along the axis, shall coincide with the other
       part.
 
    Axis of the equator, ecliptic, horizon (or other circle
       considered with reference to the sphere on which it lies),
       the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the
       plane of the circle. --Hutton.
 
    Axis of the Ionic capital (Arch.), a line passing
       perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the
       volute.
 
    Neutral axis (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the
       horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression,
       exerted by the fibers in any cross section of a girder.
 
    Optic axis of a crystal, the direction in which a ray of
       transmitted light suffers no double refraction. All
       crystals, not of the isometric system, are either uniaxial
       or biaxial.
 
    Optic axis, Visual axis (Opt.), the straight line passing
       through the center of the pupil, and perpendicular to the
       surface of the eye.
 
    Radical axis of two circles (Geom.), the straight line
       perpendicular to the line joining their centers and such
       that the tangents from any point of it to the two circles
       shall be equal to each other.
 
    Spiral axis (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn
       spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without.
 
    Axis of abscissas and Axis of ordinates. See Abscissa.
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Axes of coordinates in space (gcide) | Axis \Ax"is\, n.; pl. Axes. [L. axis axis, axle. See Axle.]
    A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body,
    on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line
    passing through a body or system around which the parts are
    symmetrically arranged.
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    2. (Math.) A straight line with respect to which the
       different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged;
       as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone,
       that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the
       center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight
       line passing through the center.
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    3. (Bot.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal
       support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the
       central line of any body. --Gray.
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    4. (Anat.)
       (a) The second vertebra of the neck, or {vertebra
           dentata}.
       (b) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is
           prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first
           vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process
           or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head
           to turn upon.
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    5. (Crystallog.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in
       describing the position of the planes by which a crystal
       is bounded.
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    6. (Fine Arts) The primary or secondary central line of any
       design.
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    Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the
       strata slope downward on the two opposite sides.
 
    Synclinal axis, a line from which the strata slope upward
       in opposite directions, so as to form a valley.
 
    Axis cylinder (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central
       substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also axis band,
       axial fiber, and cylinder axis.
 
    Axis in peritrochio, the wheel and axle, one of the
       mechanical powers.
 
    Axis of a curve (Geom.), a straight line which bisects a
       system of parallel chords of a curve; called a {principal
       axis}, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it
       divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the
       parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has
       two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two
       axes of the ellipse are the major axis and the {minor
       axis}, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the
       transverse axis and the conjugate axis.
 
    Axis of a lens, the straight line passing through its
       center and perpendicular to its surfaces.
 
    Axis of a microscope or Axis of a telescope, the straight
       line with which coincide the axes of the several lenses
       which compose it.
 
    Axes of co["o]rdinates in a plane, two straight lines
       intersecting each other, to which points are referred for
       the purpose of determining their relative position: they
       are either rectangular or oblique.
 
    Axes of co["o]rdinates in space, the three straight lines
       in which the co["o]rdinate planes intersect each other.
 
    Axis of a balance, that line about which it turns.
 
    Axis of oscillation, of a pendulum, a right line passing
       through the center about which it vibrates, and
       perpendicular to the plane of vibration.
 
    Axis of polarization, the central line around which the
       prismatic rings or curves are arranged. --Brewster.
 
    Axis of revolution (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line
       about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the
       several points of the line or plane shall describe circles
       with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes
       perpendicular to it, the line describing a surface of
       revolution, and the plane a solid of revolution.
 
    Axis of symmetry (Geom.), any line in a plane figure which
       divides the figure into two such parts that one part, when
       folded over along the axis, shall coincide with the other
       part.
 
    Axis of the equator, ecliptic, horizon (or other circle
       considered with reference to the sphere on which it lies),
       the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the
       plane of the circle. --Hutton.
 
    Axis of the Ionic capital (Arch.), a line passing
       perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the
       volute.
 
    Neutral axis (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the
       horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression,
       exerted by the fibers in any cross section of a girder.
 
    Optic axis of a crystal, the direction in which a ray of
       transmitted light suffers no double refraction. All
       crystals, not of the isometric system, are either uniaxial
       or biaxial.
 
    Optic axis, Visual axis (Opt.), the straight line passing
       through the center of the pupil, and perpendicular to the
       surface of the eye.
 
    Radical axis of two circles (Geom.), the straight line
       perpendicular to the line joining their centers and such
       that the tangents from any point of it to the two circles
       shall be equal to each other.
 
    Spiral axis (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn
       spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without.
 
    Axis of abscissas and Axis of ordinates. See Abscissa.
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Axis of ordinates (gcide) | Axis \Ax"is\, n.; pl. Axes. [L. axis axis, axle. See Axle.]
    A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body,
    on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line
    passing through a body or system around which the parts are
    symmetrically arranged.
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    2. (Math.) A straight line with respect to which the
       different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged;
       as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone,
       that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the
       center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight
       line passing through the center.
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    3. (Bot.) The stem; the central part, or longitudinal
       support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the
       central line of any body. --Gray.
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    4. (Anat.)
       (a) The second vertebra of the neck, or {vertebra
           dentata}.
       (b) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is
           prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first
           vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process
           or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head
           to turn upon.
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    5. (Crystallog.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in
       describing the position of the planes by which a crystal
       is bounded.
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    6. (Fine Arts) The primary or secondary central line of any
       design.
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    Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the
       strata slope downward on the two opposite sides.
 
    Synclinal axis, a line from which the strata slope upward
       in opposite directions, so as to form a valley.
 
    Axis cylinder (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central
       substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also axis band,
       axial fiber, and cylinder axis.
 
    Axis in peritrochio, the wheel and axle, one of the
       mechanical powers.
 
    Axis of a curve (Geom.), a straight line which bisects a
       system of parallel chords of a curve; called a {principal
       axis}, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it
       divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the
       parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has
       two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two
       axes of the ellipse are the major axis and the {minor
       axis}, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the
       transverse axis and the conjugate axis.
 
    Axis of a lens, the straight line passing through its
       center and perpendicular to its surfaces.
 
    Axis of a microscope or Axis of a telescope, the straight
       line with which coincide the axes of the several lenses
       which compose it.
 
    Axes of co["o]rdinates in a plane, two straight lines
       intersecting each other, to which points are referred for
       the purpose of determining their relative position: they
       are either rectangular or oblique.
 
    Axes of co["o]rdinates in space, the three straight lines
       in which the co["o]rdinate planes intersect each other.
 
    Axis of a balance, that line about which it turns.
 
    Axis of oscillation, of a pendulum, a right line passing
       through the center about which it vibrates, and
       perpendicular to the plane of vibration.
 
    Axis of polarization, the central line around which the
       prismatic rings or curves are arranged. --Brewster.
 
    Axis of revolution (Descriptive Geom.), a straight line
       about which some line or plane is revolved, so that the
       several points of the line or plane shall describe circles
       with their centers in the fixed line, and their planes
       perpendicular to it, the line describing a surface of
       revolution, and the plane a solid of revolution.
 
    Axis of symmetry (Geom.), any line in a plane figure which
       divides the figure into two such parts that one part, when
       folded over along the axis, shall coincide with the other
       part.
 
    Axis of the equator, ecliptic, horizon (or other circle
       considered with reference to the sphere on which it lies),
       the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the
       plane of the circle. --Hutton.
 
    Axis of the Ionic capital (Arch.), a line passing
       perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the
       volute.
 
    Neutral axis (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the
       horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression,
       exerted by the fibers in any cross section of a girder.
 
    Optic axis of a crystal, the direction in which a ray of
       transmitted light suffers no double refraction. All
       crystals, not of the isometric system, are either uniaxial
       or biaxial.
 
    Optic axis, Visual axis (Opt.), the straight line passing
       through the center of the pupil, and perpendicular to the
       surface of the eye.
 
    Radical axis of two circles (Geom.), the straight line
       perpendicular to the line joining their centers and such
       that the tangents from any point of it to the two circles
       shall be equal to each other.
 
    Spiral axis (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn
       spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without.
 
    Axis of abscissas and Axis of ordinates. See Abscissa.
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Cartesian coordinates (gcide) | Coordinate \Co*["o]r"di*nate\, n.
    1. A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or
       more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or
       importance.
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             It has neither coordinate nor analogon; it is
             absolutely one.                       --Coleridge.
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    2. pl. (Math.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by
       means of which the position of any point, as of a curve,
       is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes,
       called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See
       Abscissa.
 
    Note: Coordinates are of several kinds, consisting in some of
          the different cases, of the following elements, namely:
       (a) (Geom. of Two Dimensions) The abscissa and ordinate of
           any point, taken together; as the abscissa PY and
           ordinate PX of the point P (Fig. 2, referred to the
           coordinate axes AY and AX.
       (b) Any radius vector PA (Fig. 1), together with its angle
           of inclination to a fixed line, APX, by which any
           point A in the same plane is referred to that fixed
           line, and a fixed point in it, called the pole, P.
       (c) (Geom. of Three Dimensions) Any three lines, or
           distances, PB, PC, PD (Fig. 3), taken parallel to
           three coordinate axes, AX, AY, AZ, and measured from
           the corresponding coordinate fixed planes, YAZ, XAZ,
           XAY, to any point in space, P, whose position is
           thereby determined with respect to these planes and
           axes.
       (d) A radius vector, the angle which it makes with a fixed
           plane, and the angle which its projection on the plane
           makes with a fixed line line in the plane, by which
           means any point in space at the free extremity of the
           radius vector is referred to that fixed plane and
           fixed line, and a fixed point in that line, the pole
           of the radius vector.
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    Cartesian coordinates. See under Cartesian.
 
    Geographical coordinates, the latitude and longitude of a
       place, by which its relative situation on the globe is
       known. The height of the above the sea level constitutes a
       third coordinate.
 
    Polar coordinates, coordinates made up of a radius vector
       and its angle of inclination to another line, or a line
       and plane; as those defined in
       (b) and
       (d) above.
 
    Rectangular coordinates, coordinates the axes of which
       intersect at right angles.
 
    Rectilinear coordinates, coordinates made up of right
       lines. Those defined in
       (a) and
       (c) above are called also Cartesian coordinates.
 
    Trigonometrical coordinates or Spherical coordinates,
       elements of reference, by means of which the position of a
       point on the surface of a sphere may be determined with
       respect to two great circles of the sphere.
 
    Trilinear coordinates, coordinates of a point in a plane,
       consisting of the three ratios which the three distances
       of the point from three fixed lines have one to another.
       [1913 Webster]Cartesian \Car*te"sian\, a. [From Renatus Cartesius, Latinized
    from of Ren['e] Descartes: cf. F. cart['e]sien.]
    Of or pertaining to the French philosopher Ren['e] Descartes,
    or his philosophy.
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          The Cartesion argument for reality of matter. --Sir W.
                                                   Hamilton.
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    Cartesian coordinates (Geom), distance of a point from
       lines or planes; -- used in a system of representing
       geometric quantities, invented by Descartes.
 
    Cartesian devil, a small hollow glass figure, used in
       connection with a jar of water having an elastic top, to
       illustrate the effect of the compression or expansion of
       air in changing the specific gravity of bodies.
 
    Cartesion oval (Geom.), a curve such that, for any point of
       the curve mr + m'r' = c, where r and r' are the distances
       of the point from the two foci and m, m' and c are
       constant; -- used by Descartes.
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Geographical coordinates (gcide) | Coordinate \Co*["o]r"di*nate\, n.
    1. A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or
       more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or
       importance.
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             It has neither coordinate nor analogon; it is
             absolutely one.                       --Coleridge.
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    2. pl. (Math.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by
       means of which the position of any point, as of a curve,
       is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes,
       called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See
       Abscissa.
 
    Note: Coordinates are of several kinds, consisting in some of
          the different cases, of the following elements, namely:
       (a) (Geom. of Two Dimensions) The abscissa and ordinate of
           any point, taken together; as the abscissa PY and
           ordinate PX of the point P (Fig. 2, referred to the
           coordinate axes AY and AX.
       (b) Any radius vector PA (Fig. 1), together with its angle
           of inclination to a fixed line, APX, by which any
           point A in the same plane is referred to that fixed
           line, and a fixed point in it, called the pole, P.
       (c) (Geom. of Three Dimensions) Any three lines, or
           distances, PB, PC, PD (Fig. 3), taken parallel to
           three coordinate axes, AX, AY, AZ, and measured from
           the corresponding coordinate fixed planes, YAZ, XAZ,
           XAY, to any point in space, P, whose position is
           thereby determined with respect to these planes and
           axes.
       (d) A radius vector, the angle which it makes with a fixed
           plane, and the angle which its projection on the plane
           makes with a fixed line line in the plane, by which
           means any point in space at the free extremity of the
           radius vector is referred to that fixed plane and
           fixed line, and a fixed point in that line, the pole
           of the radius vector.
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    Cartesian coordinates. See under Cartesian.
 
    Geographical coordinates, the latitude and longitude of a
       place, by which its relative situation on the globe is
       known. The height of the above the sea level constitutes a
       third coordinate.
 
    Polar coordinates, coordinates made up of a radius vector
       and its angle of inclination to another line, or a line
       and plane; as those defined in
       (b) and
       (d) above.
 
    Rectangular coordinates, coordinates the axes of which
       intersect at right angles.
 
    Rectilinear coordinates, coordinates made up of right
       lines. Those defined in
       (a) and
       (c) above are called also Cartesian coordinates.
 
    Trigonometrical coordinates or Spherical coordinates,
       elements of reference, by means of which the position of a
       point on the surface of a sphere may be determined with
       respect to two great circles of the sphere.
 
    Trilinear coordinates, coordinates of a point in a plane,
       consisting of the three ratios which the three distances
       of the point from three fixed lines have one to another.
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Nates (gcide) | Nates \Na"tes\, n. pl. [L., the buttocks.]
    1. (Anat.)
       (a) The buttocks.
       (b) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side
           of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic
           lobes.
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    2. (Zool.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
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Oblique system of coordinates (gcide) | Oblique \Ob*lique"\, a. [F., fr. L. obliquus; ob (see Ob-) +
    liquis oblique; cf. licinus bent upward, Gr. le`chrios
    slanting.] [Written also oblike.]
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    1. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at
       right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.
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             It has a direction oblique to that of the former
             motion.                               --Cheyne.
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    2. Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence,
       disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.
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             The love we bear our friends . . .
             Hath in it certain oblique ends.      --Drayton.
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             This mode of oblique research, when a more direct
             one is denied, we find to be the only one in our
             power.                                --De Quincey.
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             Then would be closed the restless, oblique eye.
             That looks for evil, like a treacherous spy.
                                                   --Wordworth.
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    3. Not direct in descent; not following the line of father
       and son; collateral.
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             His natural affection in a direct line was strong,
             in an oblique but weak.               --Baker.
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    Oblique angle, Oblique ascension, etc. See under Angle,
       Ascension, etc.
 
    Oblique arch (Arch.), an arch whose jambs are not at right
       angles with the face, and whose intrados is in consequence
       askew.
 
    Oblique bridge, a skew bridge. See under Bridge, n.
 
    Oblique case (Gram.), any case except the nominative. See
       Case, n.
 
    Oblique circle (Projection), a circle whose plane is
       oblique to the axis of the primitive plane.
 
    Oblique fire (Mil.), a fire the direction of which is not
       perpendicular to the line fired at.
 
    Oblique flank (Fort.), that part of the curtain whence the
       fire of the opposite bastion may be discovered. --Wilhelm.
 
    Oblique leaf. (Bot.)
       (a) A leaf twisted or inclined from the normal position.
       (b) A leaf having one half different from the other.
 
    Oblique line (Geom.), a line that, meeting or tending to
       meet another, makes oblique angles with it.
 
    Oblique motion (Mus.), a kind of motion or progression in
       which one part ascends or descends, while the other
       prolongs or repeats the same tone, as in the accompanying
       example.
 
    Oblique muscle (Anat.), a muscle acting in a direction
       oblique to the mesial plane of the body, or to the
       associated muscles; -- applied especially to two muscles
       of the eyeball.
 
    Oblique narration. See Oblique speech.
 
    Oblique planes (Dialing), planes which decline from the
       zenith, or incline toward the horizon.
 
    Oblique sailing (Naut.), the movement of a ship when she
       sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points,
       making an oblique angle with the meridian.
 
    Oblique speech (Rhet.), speech which is quoted indirectly,
       or in a different person from that employed by the
       original speaker.
 
    Oblique sphere (Astron. & Geog.), the celestial or
       terrestrial sphere when its axis is oblique to the horizon
       of the place; or as it appears to an observer at any point
       on the earth except the poles and the equator.
 
    Oblique step (Mil.), a step in marching, by which the
       soldier, while advancing, gradually takes ground to the
       right or left at an angle of about 25[deg]. It is not now
       practiced. --Wilhelm.
 
    Oblique system of coordinates (Anal. Geom.), a system in
       which the coordinate axes are oblique to each other.
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Penates (gcide) | Penates \Pe*na"tes\, n. pl. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.)
    The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over
    the home and the family hearth. See Lar.
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Polar coordinates (gcide) | Polar \Po"lar\, a. [Cf. F. polaire. See Pole of the earth.]
    1. Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a
       sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the
       poles; as, polar regions; polar seas; polar winds.
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    2. Of or pertaining to the magnetic pole, or to the point to
       which the magnetic needle is directed.
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    3. (Geom.) Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common
       radiating point; as, polar coordinates.
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    Polar axis, that axis of an astronomical instrument, as an
       equatorial, which is parallel to the earths axis.
 
    Polar bear (Zool.), a large bear (Ursus maritimus syn.
       Thalarctos maritimus) inhabiting the arctic regions. It
       sometimes measures nearly nine feet in length and weighs
       1,600 pounds. It is partially amphibious, very powerful,
       and the most carnivorous of all the bears. The fur is
       white, tinged with yellow. Called also White bear. See
       Bear.
 
    Polar body, Polar cell, or Polar globule (Biol.), a
       minute cell which separates by karyokinesis from the ovum
       during its maturation. In the maturation of ordinary ova
       two polar bodies are formed, but in parthogenetic ova only
       one. The first polar body formed is usually larger than
       the second one, and often divides into two after its
       separation from the ovum. Each of the polar bodies removes
       maternal chromatin from the ovum to make room for the
       chromatin of the fertilizing spermatozoon; but their
       functions are not fully understood.
 
    Polar circles (Astron. & Geog.), two circles, each at a
       distance from a pole of the earth equal to the obliquity
       of the ecliptic, or about 23[deg] 28', the northern called
       the arctic circle, and the southern the antarctic circle.
       
 
    Polar clock, a tube, containing a polarizing apparatus,
       turning on an axis parallel to that of the earth, and
       indicating the hour of the day on an hour circle, by being
       turned toward the plane of maximum polarization of the
       light of the sky, which is always 90[deg] from the sun.
 
    Polar coordinates. See under 3d Coordinate.
 
    Polar dial, a dial whose plane is parallel to a great
       circle passing through the poles of the earth. --Math.
       Dict.
 
    Polar distance, the angular distance of any point on a
       sphere from one of its poles, particularly of a heavenly
       body from the north pole of the heavens.
 
    Polar equation of a line or Polar equation of a surface,
       an equation which expresses the relation between the polar
       coordinates of every point of the line or surface.
 
    Polar forces (Physics), forces that are developed and act
       in pairs, with opposite tendencies or properties in the
       two elements, as magnetism, electricity, etc.
 
    Polar hare (Zool.), a large hare of Arctic America ({Lepus
       arcticus}), which turns pure white in winter. It is
       probably a variety of the common European hare ({Lepus
       timidus}).
 
    Polar lights, the aurora borealis or australis.
 
    Polar opposition, or Polaric opposition or {Polar
    contrast} or Polaric contrast (Logic), an opposition or
       contrast made by the existence of two opposite conceptions
       which are the extremes in a species, as white and black in
       colors; hence, as great an opposition or contrast as
       possible.
 
    Polar projection. See under Projection.
 
    Polar spherical triangle (Spherics), a spherical triangle
       whose three angular points are poles of the sides of a
       given triangle. See 4th Pole, 2.
 
    Polar whale (Zool.), the right whale, or bowhead. See
       Whale.
       [1913 Webster]Coordinate \Co*["o]r"di*nate\, n.
    1. A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or
       more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or
       importance.
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             It has neither coordinate nor analogon; it is
             absolutely one.                       --Coleridge.
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    2. pl. (Math.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by
       means of which the position of any point, as of a curve,
       is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes,
       called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See
       Abscissa.
 
    Note: Coordinates are of several kinds, consisting in some of
          the different cases, of the following elements, namely:
       (a) (Geom. of Two Dimensions) The abscissa and ordinate of
           any point, taken together; as the abscissa PY and
           ordinate PX of the point P (Fig. 2, referred to the
           coordinate axes AY and AX.
       (b) Any radius vector PA (Fig. 1), together with its angle
           of inclination to a fixed line, APX, by which any
           point A in the same plane is referred to that fixed
           line, and a fixed point in it, called the pole, P.
       (c) (Geom. of Three Dimensions) Any three lines, or
           distances, PB, PC, PD (Fig. 3), taken parallel to
           three coordinate axes, AX, AY, AZ, and measured from
           the corresponding coordinate fixed planes, YAZ, XAZ,
           XAY, to any point in space, P, whose position is
           thereby determined with respect to these planes and
           axes.
       (d) A radius vector, the angle which it makes with a fixed
           plane, and the angle which its projection on the plane
           makes with a fixed line line in the plane, by which
           means any point in space at the free extremity of the
           radius vector is referred to that fixed plane and
           fixed line, and a fixed point in that line, the pole
           of the radius vector.
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    Cartesian coordinates. See under Cartesian.
 
    Geographical coordinates, the latitude and longitude of a
       place, by which its relative situation on the globe is
       known. The height of the above the sea level constitutes a
       third coordinate.
 
    Polar coordinates, coordinates made up of a radius vector
       and its angle of inclination to another line, or a line
       and plane; as those defined in
       (b) and
       (d) above.
 
    Rectangular coordinates, coordinates the axes of which
       intersect at right angles.
 
    Rectilinear coordinates, coordinates made up of right
       lines. Those defined in
       (a) and
       (c) above are called also Cartesian coordinates.
 
    Trigonometrical coordinates or Spherical coordinates,
       elements of reference, by means of which the position of a
       point on the surface of a sphere may be determined with
       respect to two great circles of the sphere.
 
    Trilinear coordinates, coordinates of a point in a plane,
       consisting of the three ratios which the three distances
       of the point from three fixed lines have one to another.
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Rectangular coordinates (gcide) | Coordinate \Co*["o]r"di*nate\, n.
    1. A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or
       more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or
       importance.
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             It has neither coordinate nor analogon; it is
             absolutely one.                       --Coleridge.
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    2. pl. (Math.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by
       means of which the position of any point, as of a curve,
       is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes,
       called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See
       Abscissa.
 
    Note: Coordinates are of several kinds, consisting in some of
          the different cases, of the following elements, namely:
       (a) (Geom. of Two Dimensions) The abscissa and ordinate of
           any point, taken together; as the abscissa PY and
           ordinate PX of the point P (Fig. 2, referred to the
           coordinate axes AY and AX.
       (b) Any radius vector PA (Fig. 1), together with its angle
           of inclination to a fixed line, APX, by which any
           point A in the same plane is referred to that fixed
           line, and a fixed point in it, called the pole, P.
       (c) (Geom. of Three Dimensions) Any three lines, or
           distances, PB, PC, PD (Fig. 3), taken parallel to
           three coordinate axes, AX, AY, AZ, and measured from
           the corresponding coordinate fixed planes, YAZ, XAZ,
           XAY, to any point in space, P, whose position is
           thereby determined with respect to these planes and
           axes.
       (d) A radius vector, the angle which it makes with a fixed
           plane, and the angle which its projection on the plane
           makes with a fixed line line in the plane, by which
           means any point in space at the free extremity of the
           radius vector is referred to that fixed plane and
           fixed line, and a fixed point in that line, the pole
           of the radius vector.
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    Cartesian coordinates. See under Cartesian.
 
    Geographical coordinates, the latitude and longitude of a
       place, by which its relative situation on the globe is
       known. The height of the above the sea level constitutes a
       third coordinate.
 
    Polar coordinates, coordinates made up of a radius vector
       and its angle of inclination to another line, or a line
       and plane; as those defined in
       (b) and
       (d) above.
 
    Rectangular coordinates, coordinates the axes of which
       intersect at right angles.
 
    Rectilinear coordinates, coordinates made up of right
       lines. Those defined in
       (a) and
       (c) above are called also Cartesian coordinates.
 
    Trigonometrical coordinates or Spherical coordinates,
       elements of reference, by means of which the position of a
       point on the surface of a sphere may be determined with
       respect to two great circles of the sphere.
 
    Trilinear coordinates, coordinates of a point in a plane,
       consisting of the three ratios which the three distances
       of the point from three fixed lines have one to another.
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Rectilinear coordinates (gcide) | Coordinate \Co*["o]r"di*nate\, n.
    1. A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or
       more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or
       importance.
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             It has neither coordinate nor analogon; it is
             absolutely one.                       --Coleridge.
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    2. pl. (Math.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by
       means of which the position of any point, as of a curve,
       is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes,
       called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See
       Abscissa.
 
    Note: Coordinates are of several kinds, consisting in some of
          the different cases, of the following elements, namely:
       (a) (Geom. of Two Dimensions) The abscissa and ordinate of
           any point, taken together; as the abscissa PY and
           ordinate PX of the point P (Fig. 2, referred to the
           coordinate axes AY and AX.
       (b) Any radius vector PA (Fig. 1), together with its angle
           of inclination to a fixed line, APX, by which any
           point A in the same plane is referred to that fixed
           line, and a fixed point in it, called the pole, P.
       (c) (Geom. of Three Dimensions) Any three lines, or
           distances, PB, PC, PD (Fig. 3), taken parallel to
           three coordinate axes, AX, AY, AZ, and measured from
           the corresponding coordinate fixed planes, YAZ, XAZ,
           XAY, to any point in space, P, whose position is
           thereby determined with respect to these planes and
           axes.
       (d) A radius vector, the angle which it makes with a fixed
           plane, and the angle which its projection on the plane
           makes with a fixed line line in the plane, by which
           means any point in space at the free extremity of the
           radius vector is referred to that fixed plane and
           fixed line, and a fixed point in that line, the pole
           of the radius vector.
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    Cartesian coordinates. See under Cartesian.
 
    Geographical coordinates, the latitude and longitude of a
       place, by which its relative situation on the globe is
       known. The height of the above the sea level constitutes a
       third coordinate.
 
    Polar coordinates, coordinates made up of a radius vector
       and its angle of inclination to another line, or a line
       and plane; as those defined in
       (b) and
       (d) above.
 
    Rectangular coordinates, coordinates the axes of which
       intersect at right angles.
 
    Rectilinear coordinates, coordinates made up of right
       lines. Those defined in
       (a) and
       (c) above are called also Cartesian coordinates.
 
    Trigonometrical coordinates or Spherical coordinates,
       elements of reference, by means of which the position of a
       point on the surface of a sphere may be determined with
       respect to two great circles of the sphere.
 
    Trilinear coordinates, coordinates of a point in a plane,
       consisting of the three ratios which the three distances
       of the point from three fixed lines have one to another.
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Spherical coordinates (gcide) | Coordinate \Co*["o]r"di*nate\, n.
    1. A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or
       more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or
       importance.
       [1913 Webster]
 
             It has neither coordinate nor analogon; it is
             absolutely one.                       --Coleridge.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    2. pl. (Math.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by
       means of which the position of any point, as of a curve,
       is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes,
       called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See
       Abscissa.
 
    Note: Coordinates are of several kinds, consisting in some of
          the different cases, of the following elements, namely:
       (a) (Geom. of Two Dimensions) The abscissa and ordinate of
           any point, taken together; as the abscissa PY and
           ordinate PX of the point P (Fig. 2, referred to the
           coordinate axes AY and AX.
       (b) Any radius vector PA (Fig. 1), together with its angle
           of inclination to a fixed line, APX, by which any
           point A in the same plane is referred to that fixed
           line, and a fixed point in it, called the pole, P.
       (c) (Geom. of Three Dimensions) Any three lines, or
           distances, PB, PC, PD (Fig. 3), taken parallel to
           three coordinate axes, AX, AY, AZ, and measured from
           the corresponding coordinate fixed planes, YAZ, XAZ,
           XAY, to any point in space, P, whose position is
           thereby determined with respect to these planes and
           axes.
       (d) A radius vector, the angle which it makes with a fixed
           plane, and the angle which its projection on the plane
           makes with a fixed line line in the plane, by which
           means any point in space at the free extremity of the
           radius vector is referred to that fixed plane and
           fixed line, and a fixed point in that line, the pole
           of the radius vector.
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    Cartesian coordinates. See under Cartesian.
 
    Geographical coordinates, the latitude and longitude of a
       place, by which its relative situation on the globe is
       known. The height of the above the sea level constitutes a
       third coordinate.
 
    Polar coordinates, coordinates made up of a radius vector
       and its angle of inclination to another line, or a line
       and plane; as those defined in
       (b) and
       (d) above.
 
    Rectangular coordinates, coordinates the axes of which
       intersect at right angles.
 
    Rectilinear coordinates, coordinates made up of right
       lines. Those defined in
       (a) and
       (c) above are called also Cartesian coordinates.
 
    Trigonometrical coordinates or Spherical coordinates,
       elements of reference, by means of which the position of a
       point on the surface of a sphere may be determined with
       respect to two great circles of the sphere.
 
    Trilinear coordinates, coordinates of a point in a plane,
       consisting of the three ratios which the three distances
       of the point from three fixed lines have one to another.
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Trigonometrical coordinates (gcide) | Coordinate \Co*["o]r"di*nate\, n.
    1. A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or
       more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or
       importance.
       [1913 Webster]
 
             It has neither coordinate nor analogon; it is
             absolutely one.                       --Coleridge.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    2. pl. (Math.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by
       means of which the position of any point, as of a curve,
       is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes,
       called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See
       Abscissa.
 
    Note: Coordinates are of several kinds, consisting in some of
          the different cases, of the following elements, namely:
       (a) (Geom. of Two Dimensions) The abscissa and ordinate of
           any point, taken together; as the abscissa PY and
           ordinate PX of the point P (Fig. 2, referred to the
           coordinate axes AY and AX.
       (b) Any radius vector PA (Fig. 1), together with its angle
           of inclination to a fixed line, APX, by which any
           point A in the same plane is referred to that fixed
           line, and a fixed point in it, called the pole, P.
       (c) (Geom. of Three Dimensions) Any three lines, or
           distances, PB, PC, PD (Fig. 3), taken parallel to
           three coordinate axes, AX, AY, AZ, and measured from
           the corresponding coordinate fixed planes, YAZ, XAZ,
           XAY, to any point in space, P, whose position is
           thereby determined with respect to these planes and
           axes.
       (d) A radius vector, the angle which it makes with a fixed
           plane, and the angle which its projection on the plane
           makes with a fixed line line in the plane, by which
           means any point in space at the free extremity of the
           radius vector is referred to that fixed plane and
           fixed line, and a fixed point in that line, the pole
           of the radius vector.
           [1913 Webster]
 
    Cartesian coordinates. See under Cartesian.
 
    Geographical coordinates, the latitude and longitude of a
       place, by which its relative situation on the globe is
       known. The height of the above the sea level constitutes a
       third coordinate.
 
    Polar coordinates, coordinates made up of a radius vector
       and its angle of inclination to another line, or a line
       and plane; as those defined in
       (b) and
       (d) above.
 
    Rectangular coordinates, coordinates the axes of which
       intersect at right angles.
 
    Rectilinear coordinates, coordinates made up of right
       lines. Those defined in
       (a) and
       (c) above are called also Cartesian coordinates.
 
    Trigonometrical coordinates or Spherical coordinates,
       elements of reference, by means of which the position of a
       point on the surface of a sphere may be determined with
       respect to two great circles of the sphere.
 
    Trilinear coordinates, coordinates of a point in a plane,
       consisting of the three ratios which the three distances
       of the point from three fixed lines have one to another.
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Trilinear coordinates (gcide) | Coordinate \Co*["o]r"di*nate\, n.
    1. A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or
       more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or
       importance.
       [1913 Webster]
 
             It has neither coordinate nor analogon; it is
             absolutely one.                       --Coleridge.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    2. pl. (Math.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by
       means of which the position of any point, as of a curve,
       is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes,
       called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See
       Abscissa.
 
    Note: Coordinates are of several kinds, consisting in some of
          the different cases, of the following elements, namely:
       (a) (Geom. of Two Dimensions) The abscissa and ordinate of
           any point, taken together; as the abscissa PY and
           ordinate PX of the point P (Fig. 2, referred to the
           coordinate axes AY and AX.
       (b) Any radius vector PA (Fig. 1), together with its angle
           of inclination to a fixed line, APX, by which any
           point A in the same plane is referred to that fixed
           line, and a fixed point in it, called the pole, P.
       (c) (Geom. of Three Dimensions) Any three lines, or
           distances, PB, PC, PD (Fig. 3), taken parallel to
           three coordinate axes, AX, AY, AZ, and measured from
           the corresponding coordinate fixed planes, YAZ, XAZ,
           XAY, to any point in space, P, whose position is
           thereby determined with respect to these planes and
           axes.
       (d) A radius vector, the angle which it makes with a fixed
           plane, and the angle which its projection on the plane
           makes with a fixed line line in the plane, by which
           means any point in space at the free extremity of the
           radius vector is referred to that fixed plane and
           fixed line, and a fixed point in that line, the pole
           of the radius vector.
           [1913 Webster]
 
    Cartesian coordinates. See under Cartesian.
 
    Geographical coordinates, the latitude and longitude of a
       place, by which its relative situation on the globe is
       known. The height of the above the sea level constitutes a
       third coordinate.
 
    Polar coordinates, coordinates made up of a radius vector
       and its angle of inclination to another line, or a line
       and plane; as those defined in
       (b) and
       (d) above.
 
    Rectangular coordinates, coordinates the axes of which
       intersect at right angles.
 
    Rectilinear coordinates, coordinates made up of right
       lines. Those defined in
       (a) and
       (c) above are called also Cartesian coordinates.
 
    Trigonometrical coordinates or Spherical coordinates,
       elements of reference, by means of which the position of a
       point on the surface of a sphere may be determined with
       respect to two great circles of the sphere.
 
    Trilinear coordinates, coordinates of a point in a plane,
       consisting of the three ratios which the three distances
       of the point from three fixed lines have one to another.
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cartesian coordinates (foldoc) | Cartesian coordinates
 
     (After Renee Descartes, French
    philosopher and mathematician) A pair of numbers, (x, y),
    defining the position of a point in a two-dimensional space by
    its perpendicular projection onto two axes which are at right
    angles to each other.  x and y are also known as the
    abscissa and ordinate.
 
    The idea can be generalised to any number of independent axes.
 
    Compare polar coordinates.
 
    (1997-07-08)
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