Polar-axis
noun, Mathematics.
1.
the fixed line, usually horizontal, from which the angle made by the radius vector is measured in a polar coordinate system.
noun
1.
the fixed line in a system of polar coordinates from which the polar angle, θ, is measured anticlockwise
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