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rectangular coordinates

noun Mathematics.

a coordinate system in which the axes meet at right angles.

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Also called rectangular coordinate system.

Origin:
1860–65

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rectangular coordinates

—*pl n*
	the Cartesian coordinates in a system of mutually perpendicular axes

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