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Definition of Orthogonal

1. Adjective. Not pertinent to the matter under consideration. "Mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point"

2. Adjective. Statistically unrelated.

3. Adjective. Having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles. "A rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"

Definition of Orthogonal

1. a. Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another.

Definition of Orthogonal

1. Adjective. (geometry) Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other. ¹

2. Adjective. (mathematics) ¹

3. Adjective. (statistics) Statistically independent, with reference to variates. ¹

4. Adjective. (software engineering) Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately. ¹

5. Adjective. Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Orthogonal

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Orthogonal

1. 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)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthogonal

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Literary usage of Orthogonal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"orthogonal lines, displacements, and congruence. DEFINITION. Two lines (or two points) are said to be orthogonal or perpendicular to each other if they are ..."

2. A Treatise on Conic Sections: Containing an Account of Some of the Most by George Salmon (1879)
"The orthogonal projection of any figure is, therefore, a right section of a cylinder passing ... 3) MM' represents the orthogonal projection of the line PQ, ..."

3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1906)
"Note on a property of orthogonal covariants of a binary quantic. By ARTHUR BERRY, MA, King's College. [Received 17 March 1905. ..."

4. An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics by Edwin Bailey Elliott (1895)
"This last fact as to an orthogonal covariant is a case of an interesting theorem due to Boole. It should be noticed that there are two discrete classes of ..."

5. Theoretical Kinematics by Oene Bottema, Bernard Roth (1990)
"Both cases exist: for I we have A = 1; for the orthogonal matrix a,, = - 1, ... The eigenvalues of an orthogonal matrix We have seen that a rotation R about ..."

6. Practical Physics by Richard Glazebrook, W. N. Shaw (1893)
"orthogonal Projection. Suppose that through all points of the boundary of an area, s, lines are drawn perpendicular to a given plane, ..."

7. A Treatise on Conic Sections: Containing an Account of Some of the Most by George Salmon (1879)
"If the three given circles be mutually orthogonal this relation reduces itself to ... The condition that four circles may have a common orthogonal circle is ..."

8. Lessons Introductory to the Modern Higher Algebra by George Salmon (1876)
"To form an orthogonal tranformation of the third order. Write A = 1, u, -/t - v, 1, X ft -X, 1 = 1 + X2 + ju2 + i/2. Then the constituents of the reciprocal ..."

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