Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

polar coordinates

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English

Syllables
po-lar -co-or-di-nates
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The 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.

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What does polar coordinates mean?
The 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.

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