- cylindrical coordinate
- noun Date: circa 1934 any of the coordinates in space obtained by constructing in a plane a polar coordinate system and on a line perpendicular to the plane a linear coordinate system
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
cylindrical coordinate
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