coordinate system

Questions about coordinate system

What does coordinate system mean?

coordinate system means "a system that uses coordinates to establish position".

What is another word for coordinate system?

Close synonyms include frame of reference, reference system, reference frame. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coordinate system a common word?

coordinate system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.