polar distance
61polar coordinates — 1. Coordinates derived from the distance and angular measurements from a fixed point (pole). 2. In artillery and naval gunfire support, the direction, distance, and vertical correction from the observer/spotter position to the target …
62polar coordinates — noun a) The coordinates of a point in a plane, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin and the angle measured anticlockwise/counterclockwise from the x axis to a line joining the point to the origin. b) The coordinates of a point in… …
63polar coordinate — noun either of two values that locate a point on a plane by its distance from a fixed pole and its angle from a fixed line passing through the pole • Hypernyms: ↑coordinate, ↑co ordinate * * * noun : either of two numbers that locate a point in a …
64polar circle — noun Date: 1551 either of the two parallels of latitude each at a distance from a pole of the earth equal to about 23 degrees 27 minutes …
65polar coordinate — noun Date: 1816 either of two numbers that locate a point in a plane by its distance from a fixed point on a line and the angle this line makes with a fixed line …
66Marsaglia polar method — The polar method (attributed to George Marsaglia, 1964[1]) is a pseudo random number sampling method for generating a pair of independent standard normal random variables. While it is superior to the Box–Muller transform[citation needed], the… …
67USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) — is a United States Coast Guard Heavy Icebreaker. Commissioned in 1976, the ship was built by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle, Washington along with her sister ship, Polar Sea (WAGB 11).Homeported in Seattle, Polar Star… …
68South Polar Skua — Taxobox name = South Polar Skua status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 image width = 250px image caption = A South Polar Skua in Adélie Land regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes familia = Stercorariidae genus …
69Euclidean distance — In mathematics, the Euclidean distance or Euclidean metric is the ordinary distance between two points that one would measure with a ruler, which can be proven by repeated application of the Pythagorean theorem. By using this formula as distance …
70Universal Polar Stereographic coordinate system — The Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS) coordinate system is used in conjunction with the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system to locate positions on the surface of the earth. Like the UTM coordinate system, the UPS coordinate… …
