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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: radius vector
radius vector
n 1: a line connecting a satellite to the center of the body
around which it is rotating
2: a line connecting a point in space to the origin of a polar
coordinate system
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Radius vector
Radius vector
\Ra"di*us vec"tor\ (v[e^]k"t[o^]r).
1. (Math.) A straight line (or the length of such line)
connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point,
or pole, round which the straight line turns, and to which
it serves to refer the successive points of a curve, in a
system of polar co["o]rdinates. See
Co["o]rdinate, n.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Astron.) 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.
[1913 Webster]
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