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orthogonal

[awr-thog-uh-nl] / ɔrˈθɒg ə nl /


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The "treadmill" also employed two high-speed orthogonal cameras to capture unique locomotion features -- one a side view, the other from the bottom.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

The technical term for each cherry red form is an orthotope, defined as “the Cartesian product of orthogonal intervals known as a hyperrectangle, sometimes called a parallelotope.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2022

Find a unit vector orthogonal to both a and b.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

The normal vectors are orthogonal, so the corresponding planes are orthogonal as well.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

We may describe, through all the points in an electric field which have the same potential, surfaces called equipotential surfaces, and these will be everywhere perpendicular or orthogonal to the lines of electric force.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various