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