Definitions for Cartesian

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Cartesian Car·te·sian

Spelling: [kahr-tee-zhuh n]

IPA: /kɑrˈti ʒən/

Cartesian is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 790 anagrams from letters in Cartesian (aaceinrst).

Definitions for Cartesian

noun

1. a follower of Cartesian thought.

adjective

1. of or relating to Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.

Origin of Cartesian

1650-60; New Latin Cartesiānus, equivalent to Cartesi(us) (Latinization of Descartes) + -ānus -an

Examples for Cartesian

This famous Newton, this destroyer of the Cartesian system, died in March, anno 1727.

It may not be without some application to the modern no less than the original Cartesian doctrine.

It was in the atmosphere of the Cartesian spirit that a theory of Progress was to take shape.

It would be even more absurd to attribute to them a Cartesian dualism.

He was expelled from the order at Nantes, for being a Cartesian.

His system is the perfection and the truth of the Cartesian.

It was to be developed by men who were imbued with the Cartesian spirit.

This is the cause of gravity, according to the Cartesian system.

Though no longer quite the Cartesian dualism, this is still a dualism.

On the Cartesian proofs there is a special work by Huber, 'Die cartes.