coordinate system

noun

Definitions

  1. A method of representing the position of any individual point in a space of given…

    A method of representing the position of any individual point in a space of given dimensionality as a tuple of numerical coordinates.

    • Note that the orientation of Squire's coordinate system relative to the physical coordinate system is changing as a function of wavenumbervector.
    • In Chapter 1 the choice of the origin and orientation of the analysis Cartesian coordinate system was made arbitrarily.[…]Note that nothing was said about the origins of the above two Cartesian coordinate systems.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for coordinate system. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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