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

Find a unit vector orthogonal to both a and b.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

In this section, we introduce a product of two vectors that generates a third vector orthogonal to the first two.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

A younger and shorter stolon was supported so that it projected at about 45o above the horizon, and its movement was traced by the same orthogonal method.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles