Cartesian

From the New Latin Cartesiānus, from Cartesius (“René Descartes”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɑːɹ ˈtiːziən/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑɹˈti.ʒən/

Cartesian (not comparable)

1. Of, or pertaining to, Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.
   • 2014, Peter Pesic, Music and the Making of Modern Science:

     Others within the Cartesian tradition took the idea of a light-bearing medium in quite different directions. For instance, in 1690 Christiaan Huygens considered light to be a sequence of pulses traveling at a finite velocity within the medium.

2. (mathematics, cartography) Of, or pertaining to, co-ordinates based on mutually orthogonal axes.

• Descartesean, Descartesian
• Descartean, Descartian

Cartesian (plural Cartesians)

1. One who follows the philosophy of Cartesianism.
2. (rare) The Chartreux cat.

• intracase, craniates, ascertain, arsacetin, carinates, sectarian