orthogonal

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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

Determine whether each pair of planes is parallel, orthogonal, or neither.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Imagine a pair of orthogonal vectors that share an initial point.

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