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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A coordinate system in which the coordinates of a point are its distances from a set of perpendicular lines that intersect at an origin, such as two lines in a plane or three in space.
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- noun a coordinate system for which the coordinates of a point are its distances from a set perpendicular lines that intersect at the origin of the system
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