Associations to the word «Cartesian»

CARTESIAN, adjective. Of, or pertaining to, Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.

CARTESIAN, adjective. (mathematics) (cartography) Of, or pertaining to, co-ordinates based on mutually orthogonal axes.

CARTESIAN, noun. One who follows the philosophy of Cartesianism.

CARTESIAN, adjective. Alternative spelling of Cartesian

CARTESIAN CIRCLE, noun. A supposed error in reasoning attributed to René Descartes. A form of circular argument.

CARTESIAN CIRCLES, noun. Plural of Cartesian circle

CARTESIAN CLOSED CATEGORY, noun. (category theory) A category which has a terminal object and which for every two objects A and B has a product A × B and an exponential object BA.

CARTESIAN COORDINATE, noun. (geometry) The coordinates of a point measured from an origin along a horizontal axis from left to right (the x-axis) and along a vertical axis from bottom to top (the y-axis). This can be extended to three-dimensions by the z-axis perpendicular to the x- and y-axes.

CARTESIAN COORDINATES, noun. (algebraic geometry) The 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).

CARTESIAN COORDINATES, noun. (US) Alternative letter-case form of Cartesian coordinates

CARTESIAN DEVIL, noun. A Cartesian diver.

CARTESIAN DEVILS, noun. Plural of Cartesian devil

CARTESIAN DISTANCE, noun. (algebraic geometry) Euclidean distance.

CARTESIAN DISTANCE, noun. (US) Alternative letter-case form of Cartesian distance

CARTESIAN DIVER, noun. A toy or a science experiment in which the "diver", usually a small glass tube, is placed in a larger container with flexible walls. The "diver" falls when the large container is pressed, and rises as the pressure is released.

CARTESIAN DIVERS, noun. Plural of Cartesian diver

CARTESIAN DOUBT, noun. The philosophical idea proposed by Descartes that the world outside the self is subject to uncertainty.

CARTESIAN DOUBTS, noun. Plural of Cartesian doubt

CARTESIAN GRID, noun. (maths) a regular grid consisting of squares, cubes, or more generally unit hypercubes

CARTESIAN PLANE, noun. (geometry): The set of all points in a planar coordinate system.

CARTESIAN PRODUCT, noun. (set theory) The set of all possible pairs of elements whose components are members of two sets. Notation: \(X \times Y = \{(x,y)\|x\in X \land y\in Y\}\).

CARTESIAN PRODUCT, noun. (databases) All possible combinations of rows between all of the tables listed.

CARTESIAN PRODUCTS, noun. Plural of Cartesian product

CARTESIAN SPACE, noun. (mathematics) Euclidean space described by Cartesian coordinates.

CARTESIAN WELL, noun. Common misconstruction of artesian well

CARTESIAN, noun. A follower of Cartesian thought.

CARTESIAN, adjective. Of or relating to Rene Descartes or his works; "Cartesian linguistics".