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US
/kɑɹˈtiʒən/
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NOUN
- a follower of Cartesian thought
ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to Rene Descartes or his works
Cartesian linguistics
How To Use Cartesian In A Sentence
- The error signal for the robot controller is therefore defined in Cartesian coordinates.
- His mathematical work covered Cartesian geometry and the theory of equations.
- The independent - variable coordinate (usually x) of a point on the Cartesian plane is called the abscissa, and the dependent-variable coordinate (usually y) is called the ordi - nate. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- This problem (which so far as he could tell, mathematicians regard as quite uninteresting) was simply the relation between linear, sequential strings of symbols or mathematical "sentences" like y = 1/x, and the diagrams in Cartesian coordinates that transform these statements into visual images, in this case, a curve descending from an infinite height along the vertical y-axis, turning right and skating off into an infinite eastern distance along the x-axis. The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur
- The Cartesian projection, narrowing towards the poles, is practical for detailing and is used in most coastal ordnance surveys.
- One of three axes in a three - dimensional Cartesian coordinate system.
- By counterposing the ‘virtual’ world to the ‘real’ world, Dreyfus falls into the same dualism as the Platonic and Cartesian traditions he derides.
- In the main article on Leibniz, it was claimed that Leibniz's philosophy can be seen as a reaction to the Cartesian theory of corporeal substance and the necessitarianism of Spinoza and Hobbes. Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics
- They orient along the x, y, and z axes of a Cartesian coordinate system.
- Secondly, one construction of Cartesian authentication code from norm form of one class of nilpotent matrices over finite field is presented and its size parameters are computed.