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
We say that vectors are orthogonal and lines are perpendicular.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
Hence, θ = 90°, and the vectors are orthogonal.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
Also used in comments on human discourse: "This may be orthogonal to the discussion, but...."
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
