"Upright" redirects here. For other uses, see Upright (disambiguation).
For other meanings of the most common terms for relative directions, see Left (disambiguation), Right (disambiguation), Up (disambiguation), and Down (disambiguation).
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Body relative direction" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(May 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Body relative directions (also known as egocentric coordinates)[1] are geometrical orientations relative to a body such as a human person's body or a road sign.
The most common ones are: left and right; forward and backward; up and down.
They form three pairs of orthogonal axes.
^Deutscher, Guy (August 26, 2010). "Does Your Language Shape How You Think?". The New York Times. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
and 24 Related for: Body relative direction information
Bodyrelative directions (also known as egocentric coordinates) are geometrical orientations relative to a body such as a human person's body or a road...
and W respectively. Relative to north, the directions east, south, and west are at 90 degree intervals in the clockwise direction. The ordinal directions...
German and Dutch word meaning "right" in both the sense of the bodyrelativedirection or the legal sense of rights. It may refer to: Recht, a sub-municipality...
position, or clock bearing, is the direction of an object observed from a vehicle, typically a vessel or an aircraft, relative to the orientation of the vehicle...
continuous set of displacements, called the motion of M relative to F. The motion of a body consists of a continuous set of rotations and translations...
nonliving objects, to have an orientation, described by the concept of bodyrelativedirection. Aristotle reasoned that concepts of "front" and "back" were only...
and a body, when there is relative motion, can only be transmitted by normal pressure and tangential friction stresses. So, for the whole body, the drag...
mechanics that describes the motion of bodies. Velocity is a physical vector quantity: both magnitude and direction are needed to define it. The scalar absolute...
force exerted on a body by the air (or other gas) in which the body is immersed, and is due to the relative motion between the body and the gas. There...
explained below. The escape velocity relative to the surface of a rotating body depends on direction in which the escaping body travels. For example, as the Earth's...
aeronautics, the relative wind is the direction of movement of the atmosphere relative to an aircraft or an airfoil. It is opposite to the direction of movement...
energy as any other body at the same temperature. It is a diffuse emitter: measured per unit area perpendicular to the direction, the energy is radiated...
the property that the body is rigid, namely that all its particles maintain the same distance relative to each other. If the body is rigid, it is sufficient...
scientific fields, are the two types of chirality ("handedness") or relativedirection. The terms are derived from the Latin words for "left" (sinister)...
of reference to an observer, measuring the change in position of the bodyrelative to that frame with a change in time. The branch of physics describing...
change of its angular position relative to the origin. [citation needed] Spin angular velocity refers to how fast a rigid body rotates with respect to its...
acceleration of a bodyrelative to a free-fall condition, is measured by an instrument called an accelerometer. In classical mechanics, for a body with constant...
any direction. Spondylolisthesis is graded based upon the degree of slippage of one vertebral bodyrelative to the subsequent adjacent vertebral body. Spondylolisthesis...
geodesic motion in spacetime. The motion of a body can only be described relative to something else—other bodies, observers, or a set of spacetime coordinates...
body has its own distinct center of rotation, then the relative center of rotation between the bodies has to lie somewhere on the line connecting the two...
individual body sections, relative to a specified axis, must equal the torque of the whole system that constitutes the body, measured relative to the same...
relates more to IBW than total body weight. The term was based on the use of insurance data that demonstrated the relative mortality for males and females...
bodyrelative to a larger orbiting body. The osculating (instantaneous) orbital period of the smaller body remains very near that of the larger body,...
the direction of the flow velocity, ρ {\displaystyle \rho } is the mass density of the fluid, u {\displaystyle u} is the flow velocity relative to the...