Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the philosophy or methods of Descartes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650), to his philosophy, or to his geometrical method.
- noun One who adopts the philosophy of Descartes; a follower of Descartes.
- noun Any curve of the fourth order having two cusps on the absolute.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An adherent of Descartes.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the French philosopher René Descartes, or his philosophy.
- adjective (Geom) distance of a point from lines or planes; -- used in a system of representing geometric quantities, invented by Descartes.
- adjective 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.
- adjective (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or pertaining to, Descartes, his
mathematical methods , or hisphilosophy , especially withregard to itsemphasis onlogical analysis and itsmechanistic interpretation ofphysical nature . - adjective mathematics, cartography Of, or pertaining to,
co-ordinates based on mutuallyorthogonal axes . - noun One who follows the philosophy of
Cartesianism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to Rene Descartes or his works
- noun a follower of Cartesian thought
Etymologies
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Examples
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These two numbers are then the Cartesian co-ordinates of this corner with reference to the Cartesian co-ordinate system which is determined by the arrangement of little rods.
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CARTESIAN THREE-SPACE An extension of rectangular coordinates into three dimensions is Cartesian three-space (Fig. 6-2), also called xyz-space.
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MATHEMATICIAN'S POLAR VS CARTESIAN Figure 5-13 shows a point P ¼ (x0, y0) ¼ (0, r0) graphed on superimposed Cartesian and polar coordinate systems.
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Interesting discussing on photography as a weapon is continued in Cartesian Blogging.
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Interesting discussing on photography as a weapon is continued in Cartesian Blogging.
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Interesting discussing on photography as a weapon is continued in Cartesian Blogging.
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Interesting discussing on photography as a weapon is continued in Cartesian Blogging.
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Interesting discussing on photography as a weapon is continued in Cartesian Blogging.
Knowledge is Power: Photography: November 2008 Archives 2008
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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 1997
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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.
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