Concept information
Preferred term
direction cosine
Definition(s)
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In analytic geometry, the direction cosines (or directional cosines) of a vector are the cosines of the angles between the vector and the three positive coordinate axes. Equivalently, they are the contributions of each component of the basis to a unit vector in that direction.
(Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direction_cosine)
Broader concept(s)
Synonym(s)
- directional cosine
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/PSR-Q2VJ8V8G-Q
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