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Definition of Polar axis - 2 dictionary results

polar axis

–noun Mathematics.
the fixed line, usually horizontal, from which the angle made by the radius vector is measured in a polar coordinate system.

Origin:
1890–95
polar axis  
n.  The fixed reference axis from which the polar angle is measured in a polar coordinate system.
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