What does Cartesian coordinate mean?
• CARTESIAN COORDINATE (noun) The noun CARTESIAN COORDINATE has 1 sense: 1. one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes Familiarity information: CARTESIAN COORDINATE used as a noun is very rare.
