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Cartesian
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cartesian
English
Etymology
From the en la-new Cartesiānus, from la Cartesius René Descartes.
Pronunciation
en /kɑː(ɹ) ˈtiːziən/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Cartesian.wav Southern England
en /kɑɹˈti.ʒən/ US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-TranqyPoo-Cartesian.wav US
Adjective
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Of, or pertaining to, Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.
en 2014 Peter Pesic Music and the Making of Modern Science Others within the Cartesian tradition took the idea of a light-bearing medium in quite different directions. For instance, in 1690 Christiaan Huygens considered light to be a sequence of pulses traveling at a finite velocity within the medium.
en 2019 Susan Schneider Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Princeton University Press 140 How would a program implementation view be compatible with Cartesian dualism?
en mathematics cartography Of, or pertaining to, co-ordinates based on mutually orthogonal axes.
Synonyms
en Descartesean, en Descartesian
en Descartean, en Descartian
Derived terms
en bicartesian Cartesian circle Cartesian coordinates Cartesian diver Cartesian doubt Cartesian square Cartesian equation Cartesian grid Cartesian dualism Cartesian plane Cartesian product Cartesian space cocartesian
Translations
of or pertaining to Descartes
Catalan: ca cartesià
Czech: cs karteziánský m
Danish: da kartesisk
Dutch: nl cartesisch
Finnish: fi karteesinen, fi kartesiolainen
French: fr cartésien
German: de kartesisch, de cartesisch, de cartesianisch, de kartesianisch
Greek: el καρτεσιανός m
Hungarian: hu descartes-i
Italian: it cartesiano
Japanese: ja デカルト的 デカルトてき
Latin: la Cartesiānus New Latin
Macedonian: mk де́картов m
Persian: fa دکارتی dekârti
Polish: pl kartezjański
Portuguese: pt cartesiano
Russian: ru дека́ртов dɛkártov, ru дека́ртовский dɛkártovskij, ru картезиа́нский kartɛziánskij
Spanish: es cartesiano
Tagalog: tl kartesyano
of or pertaining to coordinates based on orthogonal axes
Catalan: ca cartesià
Czech: cs kartézský
Danish: da kartesisk
Dutch: nl cartesisch
Finnish: fi karteesinen
Greek: el καρτεσιανός m
Hungarian: hu Descartes-féle
Italian: it cartesiano
Macedonian: mk де́картов m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb kartesisk
Nynorsk: nn kartesisk
Persian: fa دکارتی dekârti
Polish: pl kartezjański
Portuguese: pt cartesiano
Spanish: es cartesiano
Noun
One who follows the philosophy of Cartesianism.
en rare The Chartreux cat.
Translations
follower of Cartesianism
Finnish: fi kartesiolainen
German: de Kartesianer m, de Cartesianer m
Latin: la Cartesiānus m New Latin
Polish: pl kartezjanin m
Russian: ru картезианец m
Tagalog: tl kartesyano
Anagrams
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