Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cartesian_coordinate
1 sense of cartesian coordinate
Sense 1
Cartesian coordinate -- (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)
=> coordinate, co-ordinate -- (a number that identifies a position relative to an axis)