"coordinate system" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: coordinate systems [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} coordinate system (plural coordinate systems)
  1. (geometry, mathematical analysis) A method of representing the position of any individual point in a space of given dimensionality as a tuple of numerical coordinates. Wikipedia link: coordinate system Categories (topical): Geometry, Mathematical analysis, Systems Related terms: analytic geometry, axis, Cartesian coordinate, coordinate plane, polar coordinates, tuple Translations (method of representing points in a space): نِظَامُ إِحْدَاثِيَّاتٍ (niẓāmu ʔiḥdāṯiyyātin) [masculine] (Arabic), կոորդինատային համակարգ (koordinatayin hamakarg) (Armenian), 坐標系 (Chinese Mandarin), 坐标系 (zuòbiāoxì) (Chinese Mandarin), soustava souřadnic [feminine] (Czech), koordinatsystem [neuter] (Danish), coördinatenstelsel [neuter] (Dutch), koordinatsistemo (Esperanto), système de coordonnées [masculine] (French), Koordinatensystem [neuter] (German), निर्देशांक तंत्र (nirdeśāṅk tantra) [masculine] (Hindi), koordináta-rendszer (Hungarian), sistema di coordinate [masculine] (Italian), 座標系 (zahyōkei) (alt: ざひょうけい) (Japanese), 좌표계 (jwapyogye) (Korean), systēma coōrdinātārum [New-Latin, neuter] (Latin), sîstema koordînatê (Northern Kurdish), koordinatsystem [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), koordinatsystem [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), układ współrzędnych [masculine] (Polish), sistema de coordenadas [masculine] (Portuguese), sistem de coordonate [neuter] (Romanian), систе́ма координа́т (sistéma koordinát) [feminine] (Russian), iskuxidh nidaamyo (Somali), sistema de coordenadas [masculine] (Spanish), koordinatsystem [neuter] (Swedish), tayuwatan (Tagalog), kaayusang katayuwat (Tagalog)

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