Polar Axis: Meaning & Significance

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What is the significance of the polar axis?

What would it mean if someone said 'Take the z axis (in 3D cartesian coords) as the polar axis?'
 

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I found out what it meant. The polar axis is where angles are measured with respect to.
 

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