Radius Vector Definition

radii-vectores, radius-vectors
noun
A straight line joining the origin of a vector, located at the intersection of two coordinates, to a given point lying in the same plane.
Webster's New World
The length of such a line segment.
American Heritage
A vector whose point of origin is fixed and whose terminal point ranges over a given curve or surface, as a straight line connecting the sun with the earth at any point of the earth's orbit.
Webster's New World
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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Other Word Forms of Radius Vector

Noun

Singular:
radius vector
Plural:
radius-vectors

Radius Vector Sentence Examples

  • The anomaly is then the angle BFP which the radius vector makes with the major axis.

  • Let P, P' be two consecutive positions of the radius vector.

  • From the law of angular motion of the latter its radius vector will run ahead of PQ near A, PQ will overtake and pass it at apocentre, and the two will again coincide at pericentre when the revolution is completed.

  • The problem of finding a radius vector satisfying this condition is one which can be solved only by successive approximations, or tentatively.

  • This is the simplest case of generation of a plane figure by a moving ordinate; the corresponding figure for generation by rotation of a radius vector is a circle.

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Words Starting With

RRARAD

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RORTOR

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radius vector

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