Look up: orthogonal

1. Orthogonal
   At right angles to each other.
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2. orthogonal
   [adj] - having a set of mutually perpendicular axes
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3. Orthogonal
   Mutually perpendicular. See also: Perpendicular.
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4. orthogonal
   this word occurs in several distinct but related senses: a) in its mathematical sense as meaning perpendicular, e.g. in relation to a pair of orthogonal co-ordinate axes; b) in relation to a set of mathematical functions (see orthogonal functions); c) in relation to two variates or two linear functi...
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5. Orthogonal
   Or·thog'o·nal adjective [ Confer French orthogonal .] Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another. Orthogonal projection . See under Orthographic .
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6. orthogonal
   Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another. Orthogonal projection. See Orthographic. ... Origin: Cf. F. Orthogonal. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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7. orthogonal
   rectangular adjective having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; `wind and sea may displace the ship`s center of gravity along three orthogonal axes`; `a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system`
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8. orthogonal
   adjective statistically unrelated
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9. Orthogonal
   • (a.) Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another.
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10. orthogonal
    orthogonal 1. Having or determined by right angles; perpendicular. 2. An area of a computer display in which units of distance are the same horizontally and vertically so that there is no distortion.
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11. orthogonal
    applies to two non-zero vectors the scalar product of which is zero NOTE - In a real two- or three-dimensional space, orthogonal vectors are also called perpendicular.
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12. orthogonal
    At right angles to; independent of. Orthogonal curves are two families of curves with the property that each member of one family meets members of the other family at right angles.
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13. orthogonal
    (geometry) At 90 degrees (right angles). N mutually orthogonal vectors span an N-dimensional vector space, meaning that, any vector in the space can be expressed as a linear combination of the vectors. This is true of any set of N linearly independent vectors. The term is used loosely to mean mutua...
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14. Orthogonal
    [novel] Orthogonal is a science fiction trilogy by Australian author Greg Egan taking place in a universe where space-time follows the Riemannian metric instead of the Minkowski one. The first novel of the trilogy, The Clockwork Rocket, was published in 2011. ==Footnotes== ...
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