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

If the planes are intersecting, but not orthogonal, find the measure of the angle between them.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

We say that vectors are orthogonal and lines are perpendicular.

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