Radial Distance

Definition

Radial distance refers to the straight-line distance from a point to the origin in a coordinate plane. It is also known as the magnitude or modulus of a complex number.

Related terms

Polar Coordinates: A system that represents points in a plane using an angle and a radial distance.

Magnitude: The size or length of a vector or complex number.

Origin: The point (0, 0) on a coordinate plane where both x-axis and y-axis intersect.