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(1):

(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.

(2):

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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Radius Vector'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​r/radius-vector.html. 1828.
 
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