Usually means: Position vector from origin point.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. radius vector: Merriam-Webster
  2. radius vector: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. radius vector: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. radius vector: Collins English Dictionary
  5. radius vector: Vocabulary.com
  6. radius vector: Wordnik
  7. radius vector: Wiktionary
  8. radius vector: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. radius vector: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. radius vector: Dictionary.com
  11. Radius vector: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. radius vector: Rhymezone
  13. Radius vector: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. radius vector: FreeDictionary.org
  15. radius vector: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. radius vector: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. radius vector: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Radius Vector: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Radius Vector: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. radius vector: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (radius vector)

noun:  (geometry) Of a point, a vector going from the origin to that point; equivalently, the transpose of the point.
noun:  (astronomy) An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite.

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