Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 5 compound words that contain coordinates. The most common are listed below. Open coordinates in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- origin of coordinatesThe point of intersection of coordinate axes, which represents the value of 0 for all coordinates.
- Cartesian coordinatesThe coordinates of a point measured as its perpendicular distance to the right of a vertical axis (the y-axis) and its perpendicular distance above a horizontal axis (the x-axis).
- polar coordinatesThe coordinates of a point in a plane, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to a line joining the point to the origin.
- rectangular coordinatesCartesian coordinates.
- homogeneous coordinatesplural of homogeneous coordinate: Any one of a set of n + 1 coordinates which non-uniquely identify a point in an n-dimensional projective space; when such coordinates are all multiplied by the same scalar, then the set of them still …
- spherical coordinatesA coordinate system, for three-dimensional space, using latitude, longitude and radius (i.e. distance from the center) as the coordinates.
- Brinkmann coordinatesA particular coordinate system for a spacetime belonging to the family of pp-wave metrics.
- Talairach coordinatesplural of Talairach coordinate: Any coordinate in a three-dimensional coordinate system used to map the universal locations of structures in the human brain.
- Kruskal-Szekeres coordinatesA coordinate system suited to the geometry of certain kinds of black hole.
- Plücker coordinatesplural of Plücker coordinate: Any of six homogeneous coordinates assigned to a line in projective 3-space, used in geometric algebra and computer graphics.
- color coordinatesplural of color coordinate: Each value in a set of coordinates representing the position of a color in a color space.
- colour coordinatesplural of colour coordinate
- space polar coordinatesplural of space polar coordinate: Any of a system of coordinates by which a point is located in space by its distance from a pole, the angle between the polar axis and its radius vector, and its longitude.
- oblique system of coordinatesA system in which the coordinate axes are oblique to each other.
Compound words 5
- eigencoordinatesplural of eigencoordinate: A coordinate composed of eigenvalues
- geocoordinatesplural of geocoordinate: A geospatial coordinate.
- miscoordinatesthird-person singular simple present indicative of miscoordinate: To fail to coordinate properly.
- paleocoordinatesplural of paleocoordinate: A geographical coordinate at a past time accounting for the effects of plate tectonics, etc.
- supercoordinatesplural of supercoordinate: An additional coordinate in a superconformal algebra