Usually means: Coordinate system using radius, angle.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word polar coordinates:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. polar coordinates: Merriam-Webster
  2. polar coordinates: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. polar coordinates: Collins English Dictionary
  4. polar coordinates: Vocabulary.com
  5. polar coordinates: Wiktionary
  6. polar coordinates: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Polar coordinates, polar coordinates: Dictionary.com
  8. Polar coordinates: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. polar coordinates: FreeDictionary.org
  10. polar coordinates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polar coordinates: Encyclopedia

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Polar Coordinates: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. polar coordinates: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See polar_coordinate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (polar coordinates)

noun:  (mathematics) The coordinates of a point in a plane, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to a line joining the point to the origin.
noun:  (mathematics) A system of coordinates using such measurements to indicate position.
noun:  (mathematics) The coordinates of a point in three-dimensional space, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin, the angle measured from the z-axis to a line joining the point to the origin, and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to this line.

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