polar coordinate

1. 1.

   either of two values that locate a point on a plane by its distance from a fixed pole and its angle from a fixed line passing through the pole

   Broadercoordinate

Questions about polar coordinate

What does polar coordinate mean?

polar coordinate means "either of two values that locate a point on a plane by its distance from a fixed pole and its angle from a fixed line passing through the pole".

Is polar coordinate a common word?

polar coordinate 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.