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un·der·go / ˌəndərˈgō/ • v. (-goes; past -went; past part. -gone) [tr.] experience or be subjected to (something, typically something unpleasant, painful, or arduous): the baby underwent a life-saving brain operation.
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First graders, flies, and a Frenchman's fascination: introducing the Cartesian coordinate system. (Links to Literature).
Magazine article from: Teaching Children Mathematics; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Descartes and the Cartesian coordinate system. Descartes...movement using ordered coordinates for each point. His grid (the Cartesian coordinate system) is the solution...concepts of the Cartesian coordinate system, including...pairs, and specifying coordinates of a ...
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Stability of an Iterative Dual-Doppler Wind Synthesis in Cartesian Coordinates
Magazine article from: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...is the iterative wind synthesis in Cartesian coordinates. However, in some instances, the...wind vector at location x, y, z in a Cartesian coordinate system; u, v, and w are the Cartesian components of the wind vector; [alpha...
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Oregon Inventor Develops Optical Disc Non-Cartesian Coordinate System
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/15/2007; 432 words
; ...Bend, Ore., has developed an optical disc non-cartesian coordinate system. According to the U.S. Patent &...the invention is disclosed that generates a non-Cartesian coordinate system for an optical disc. One or more uniform...
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Tips for teaching Cartesian graphing: linking concepts and procedures.
Magazine article from: Teaching Children Mathematics; 9/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...1989). In particular, Cartesian graphing is rapidly becoming...is shown that the first coordinate indicates horizontal movement...origin, that the second coordinate indicates vertical movement...pairs and perhaps naming the coordinates for graphed points. Typically...of, or rationale for, ...
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Cartesian Data announces breakthrough in data storage technology for higher capacity, low cost mobile applications; new company's proprietary TMT technology offers alternative to conventional disk drive and FLASH memory architectures.
Business Wire; 3/3/1997; 700+ words
; ...like this could be high. If Cartesian can deliver as promised, this...Although the proprietary Cartesian TMT architecture employs magnetic...a rectilinear, or X-Y ("Cartesian") coordinate motion of parallel read/write...
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Design and fabrication of a Cartesian painter robot for the construction industry
Magazine article from: International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...on different sites and must be reprogrammed with each new condition. That is why digital control with manipulators using coordinate systems to direct three-dimensional motion is required for construction robots. Construction robots often handle large...
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Carbon coordinates: what if Descartes had been an organic chemist?
Magazine article from: Canadian Chemical News; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...we can say that the Cartesian coordinate system was not the...with the Cartesian coordinate system, so they developed other systems of coordinates, such as the spherical...cylindrical ones. These new coordinate systems were better...
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Coordinates & Camera Angles.(insurance field adjustment)
Magazine article from: Claims; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...a camera and adoption of the Cartesian coordinate system of measurement (used...vehicles. What is it? If the Cartesian coordinate system sounds vaguely...geometry. In a nutshell, the Cartesian coordinate system is named for...
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Converting UTM coordinates for display: conversion of different display formats of UTM coordinates is made easy by special software programs.
Magazine article from: GEO: connexion; 4/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...globalization, national coordinate systems are constantly...standardized UTM coordinates. For those, there...According to the UTM coordinate system, the globe...as an individual Cartesian coordinate system...as an individual Cartesian coordinate system, the ...
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Coordinate transformation on a sphere using conformal mapping
Magazine article from: Monthly Weather Review; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...specify a location. The Cartesian system consisting of three...usually not efficient and a coordinate transformation is required...formulation in Cartesian coordinates]. In Gal-- Chen and...Cartesian, nonorthogonal coordinate system. This formulation...orthogonal curvilinear ...
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Cartesian coordinate system
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet
Cartesian coordinate system A way of locating objects in either two- or three-dimensional space by specifying their X (horizontal) position, Y...
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Cartesian coordinates
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cartesian coordinates [for René Descartes...which are called the coordinate axes, is known as the origin. In rectangular coordinates, the type most often...vertical, so that the x -coordinate, or abscissa, of P is...
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Cartesian projection
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Cartesian projection A technique for the mapping...three mutually perpendicular axes (the Cartesian coordinates of the point). These coordinates...representation (a map). The word ‘Cartesian’ is derived from the name...
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Cartesian
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Cartesian of or relating to the ideas of the philosopher René Descartes...1650), deriving from Cartesius , the Latinized form of his name. Cartesian coordinates numbers which indicate the location of a point relative to a fixed...
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Descartes and His Coordinate System
Book article from: Mathematics
...Cartesian Coordinate System Cartesian coordinates are used to...intersecting lines. In coordinate geometry, all points...and figures are drawn in a coordinate plane . By reference to the two coordinate axes, any point, line...axis). A point with coordinates (4, − ...
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