radius vector

1. A straight line (or the length of such line) connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point, or pole, round which the straight line turns, and to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve, in a system of polar coordinates. See Coordinate, n. Source: opted

2. n. An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite. Source: opted

3. n. a line connecting a satellite to the center of the body around which it is rotating Source: wordnet

4. n. a line connecting a point in space to the origin of a polar coordinate system Source: wordnet

5. 1. (Math.) A straight line (or the length of such line) connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point, or pole, round which the straight line turns, and to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve, in a system of polar coördinates. See Coördinate, n. 2. (Astron.) An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite. Source: webster

6. A straight line (or the length of such line) connecting anypoint, as of a curve, with a fixed point, or pole, round which thestraight line turns, and to which it serves to refer the successivepoints of a curve, in a system of polar coördinates. See Coördinate,n. Source: adambom

7. A straight line (or the length of such line) connecting any point, as of a curve, with a fixed point, or pole, round which the straight line turns, and to which it serves to refer the successive points of a curve, in a system of polar coordinates. See Coordinate, n. n. An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite. Source: ecdict

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