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Radius vector   /rˈeɪdiəs vˈɛktər/   Listen
Radius vector

noun
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.





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... engineer (section D of the Public Works Department) and I have to make an important measurement in connexion with the Apothegm of the Bilateral which runs to-night precisely through this spot. My fingers now mark exactly the concentric of the secondary focus whence the Radius Vector should be drawn, but I find that (like a fool) I have left my Double Refractor in the cafe hard by. I dare not go for fear of losing the place I have marked; yet I can get no further ...
— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc


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