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Meanings of position vector in English

Russian
радиус-вектор
Portuguese
posição de um corpo
Spanish
vector de posición
Catalan
posició

Vector representing the position of a point with respect to a fixed origin.

радиус-вектор
Synonyms
Examples for "position"
Examples for "position"
1
FRANCE: What is the French position on possible military conflict with Iraq?
The Irish Times
2
GM officials said their position would not change, however, the source said.
Reuters
3
Those funds still carry a notable long position in the market, however.
Reuters
4
Industry bodies would be in a good position to help, she said.
Radio NZ
5
Yet, it's clear the president takes seriously his position as role model.
Ebony
1
Airy wrote expressing his interest, and asked for particulars about the radius vector.
History of Astronomy
2
They concerned the error of the radius vector.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17
3
The angles measured by Struve, reckoned from the radius vector, prolonged towards the sun, are subjoined:
Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms / Containing the True ...
4
The area covered would always be uniform, because the radius vector would always be uniform in length.
Aether and Gravitation
5
He also now answered quite satisfactorily, but too late, the question about the radius vector sent to him months before.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17
Usage of position vector in English
1
Same for location 2 and the position vector 2.
Wired
2
In this process, the dynamics of the position vector is modeled by the Langevin equation with a linear restoring force and a fluctuating diffusivity (FD).
Pubmed
3
If you change the location of the origin, your position vectors will change.
Wired
4
If I take a round trip, my starting and ending position vectors are the same thing.
Wired
5
If you know the two position vectors, then the displacement vector would be: Finally, we are ready for the definition of average velocity.
Wired