Cartesian
adjective
Car·te·sian
kär-ˈtē-zhən 
: of or relating to René Descartes or his philosophy
Cartesian
noun
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While the motion of any real entities through the fabric of spacetime is limited by the speed of light in a vacuum, spacetime itself is not required to be flat and unchanging: like a three-dimensional Cartesian grid.
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Big Think, 20 June 2024
And soon enough, a much churchier view — Cartesian dualism — emerged.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 4 June 2024
Stretch performs Cartesian motions to move its gripper to a body-relative position using a good motion heuristic, which is to extend the arm as the last step.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 14 July 2020
The urban plan follows the Cartesian shape of an airplane.
—Clarissa Tossin, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
The output of this process is then used as input to drive the end-pose of the robotic hands relative to the human hand movements, through a whole-body inverse kinematics process in the Cartesian space.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2018
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Big Think, 20 June 2024
And soon enough, a much churchier view — Cartesian dualism — emerged.
—Sigal Samuel, Vox, 4 June 2024
Stretch performs Cartesian motions to move its gripper to a body-relative position using a good motion heuristic, which is to extend the arm as the last step.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 14 July 2020
The urban plan follows the Cartesian shape of an airplane.
—Clarissa Tossin, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
The output of this process is then used as input to drive the end-pose of the robotic hands relative to the human hand movements, through a whole-body inverse kinematics process in the Cartesian space.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2018
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“Cartesian.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cartesian. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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