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spher'ical coor'dinates



Math.
a system of coordinates for locating a point in space by the length of its radius vector and the angles this vector makes with two perpendicular polar planes.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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