Meanings of rectangular coordinate system in English

Cartesian Coordinates This is the one you are likely familiar with.

It doesn't depend on whether you're in radial coordinates or Cartesian coordinates, or whatever.

Leibniz could not bear to look at them because more than anyone else he was responsible for Cartesian coordinates.

" Cartesian coordinates," Saturn mused, "for plotting the wand'rings of our thoughts, like."

Visual representations-other forms of writing-are closer to what they report about: the Cartesian coordinates for space, the clock for a cyclical perception of time, etc.