English noun: Cartesian coordinate | |||
1. | Cartesian coordinate (cognition) one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes | ||
Broader (hypernym) | co-ordinate, coordinate | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | abscissa, dimension, ordinate | ||