Cartesian
adjective
Car·te·sian
kär-ˈtē-zhən 
: of or relating to René Descartes or his philosophy
Cartesian
noun
Examples of Cartesian in a Sentence
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Stretch performs Cartesian motions to move its gripper to a body-relative position using a good motion heuristic, which is to extend the arm as the last step.
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Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 14 July 2020
The urban plan follows the Cartesian shape of an airplane.
—Clarissa Tossin, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
The output of this process is then used as input to drive the end-pose of the robotic hands relative to the human hand movements, through a whole-body inverse kinematics process in the Cartesian space.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2018
Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 14 July 2020
The urban plan follows the Cartesian shape of an airplane.
—Clarissa Tossin, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
The output of this process is then used as input to drive the end-pose of the robotic hands relative to the human hand movements, through a whole-body inverse kinematics process in the Cartesian space.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2018
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Word History
Etymology
New Latin cartesianus, from Cartesius Descartes
First Known Use
1656, in the meaning defined above
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“Cartesian.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cartesian. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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