COORDINATE SYSTEM

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does coordinate system mean? 

• COORDINATE SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun COORDINATE SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. a system that uses coordinates to establish position

  Familiarity information: COORDINATE SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COORDINATE SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A system that uses coordinates to establish position

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

coordinate system; frame of reference; reference frame; reference system

Hypernyms ("coordinate system" is a kind of...):

arrangement; organisation; organization; system (an organized structure for arranging or classifying)

Meronyms (parts of "coordinate system"):

coordinate axis (one of the fixed reference lines of a coordinate system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coordinate system"):

Cartesian coordinate system (a coordinate system for which the coordinates of a point are its distances from a set perpendicular lines that intersect at the origin of the system)

inertial frame; inertial reference frame (a coordinate system in which Newton's first law of motion is valid)

space-time; space-time continuum (the four-dimensional coordinate system (3 dimensions of space and 1 of time) in which physical events are located)

 Context examples 

The position and orientation of the image slice relative to the patient-based coordinate system.

(Image Plane, NCI Thesaurus)

The process of transforming sets of image data from different times or perspectives into one coordinate system.

(Image Registration, NCI Thesaurus)

Either a point at which there is a maximum or minimum of a radiation dose or the center point of a radiation field where the origin of the coordinate system is (x, y, z) = (0, 0 ,0).

(Isocenter, NCI Thesaurus)