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Definition: Cartesian |
CartesianAdjective1. Of or relating to Rene Descartes or his works; "Cartesian linguistics". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Cartesian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
"Cartesian" is a common misspelling or typo for: artesian. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum -- whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Cartesian |
| English words defined with "Cartesian": cartesian coordinate, Cartesian devil ♦ dimension, Dioptric curve ♦ Occasionalism, orthogonal ♦ pattern ♦ quadric, quadric surface ♦ radiation diagram, radiation pattern, rectangular. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Cartesian": axiom of choice ♦ Cartesian, cartesian coordinate robot, Cartesian coordinates, Cartesian Philosophy, Cartesian product, cartesian robot, coordinate axes., coordinate planes, curvilinear coordinates, cylindrical coordinates ♦ del-operator, DLG STANDARD FORMAT ♦ hypercube ♦ Laplacian operator ♦ oblique coordinates ♦ polar coordinates ♦ rectangular robot, relational algebra ♦ space coordinates ♦ The DLG Standard Format is no longer distributed. ♦ x-coordinate ♦ y-coordinate. (references) |
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Cogito | Only the first word of the Cartesian philosophy is true: it was not possible for Descartes to say cogito, ergo sum, but only cogito. |
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| "Cartesian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.13% of the time. "Cartesian" is used about 107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.13% | 105 | 31,781 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.87% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Cartesian": cartesian coordinate ♦ cartesian coordinate robot ♦ Cartesian coordinates ♦ Cartesian devil ♦ cartesian product ♦ cartesian robot. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Cartesian": cartesian-kantian. | |
Ending with "Cartesian": post-cartesian. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cartesian product | 23 |
cartesian diver | 23 |
cartesian coordinate system | 18 |
cartesian | 15 |
cartesian coordinate | 15 |
cartesian plane | 15 |
cartesian dualism | 13 |
cartesian robot | 7 |
cartesian graph | 4 |
cartesian conclusion | 4 |
cartesian circle | 3 |
cartesian self | 3 |
cartesian join | 3 |
cartesian coordinate plane | 3 |
cartesian direction distance software x,y | 2 |
cartesian skepticism | 2 |
philosophy cartesian | 2 |
cartesian technology | 2 |
cartesian coordinate geodetic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Cartesian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kartezian. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ديكارتي منسوب إلى ديكارت. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | картезиански, картезианец. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 解析 (parse, parsed, parsing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kartesisk robot (cartesian coordinate robot, cartesian robot, rectangular robot), kartesisk produkt (Cartesian product). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cartesisch produkt (Cartesian product), robot met cartesiaanse coördinaten (cartesian coordinate robot, cartesian robot, rectangular robot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ristitulo (Cartesian product, cross product, vector product), karteesinen tulo (Cartesian product), karteesinen robotti (cartesian coordinate robot, cartesian robot, rectangular robot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cartésien. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kartesisch, kartesianisch, kartesianer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Καρτεσιανό γινόμενο (Cartesian product), ρομπότ καρτεσιανών συντεταγμένων (cartesian coordinate robot, cartesian robot, rectangular robot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | descartes-féle, derékszögű (orthogonal, rectangular, square, squaring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cartesiano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 데카르트 학. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Cairteesagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | artesiancay cartesiano. (various references) картезианский, последователь декарта. (various references) kartuzijski, kartuzijanski, dekartov. (various references) cartesiano. (various references) kartesiansk (carthusian). (various references) kartezyen, dekartçı, decartes veya felsefesi ile ilgili. (various references) картезіанський, послідовник декарта, декартівський. (various references) người theo thuyết Đê-các-tơ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Cartesian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bartasiena, Carstein, cartesain, Contessina, Cordesman, Katrusya, Kermesina, Martesana. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ascertain, craniates, sectarian. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: acarines, antisera, canaries, canister, carinate, caterans, ceratins, cesarian, cisterna, craniate, creatins, estancia, ratanies, scantier, seatrain, tacrines. | |
-2 letters: acarine, acetins, acrasin, anestri, antiars, anticar, antsier, arcsine, aristae, arnicas, arsenic, artisan, asteria, atresia, canters, carates, carinae, carinas, caritas, carnets, carnies, catenas, cateran, ceratin, certain, cineast, cistern, creatin, cretins, cristae, entasia, narcist, nastier, nectars, raciest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: anticaries, ascertains, catenaries, discarnate, incarnates, sectarians, tarriances. | |
+2 letters: abreactions, aeronautics, anthracites, ascertained, cantatrices, cantharides, caretakings, carnalities, carnallites, catarrhines, ceratopsian, deracinates, lacerations, macerations, pancreatins, reacquaints, sanctuaries, tetracaines, vacationers. | |
+3 letters: altercations, anacreontics, antipiracies, ascertaining, bicarbonates, candidatures, cardinalates, carminatives, centenarians, ceratopsians, declarations, demarcations, emancipators, eradications, fractionates, incarcerates, interactants, intercalates, intercoastal, nonsectarian, pancreatitis, rarefactions, ratiocinates, recantations, reclamations, reescalating, reescalation, reincarnates, revaccinates, scatteration, scatterbrain, sectarianism, sectarianize, tradescantia, transoceanic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 74 65 73 69 61 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. - . ... .. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r t e s i a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0074 0065 0073 0069 0061 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376784867185756780 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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