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

For which value of x is p = 〈 2, 8, −1 〉 orthogonal to q = 〈 x, −1, 2 〉 ?

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Figure 2.69 Given a point P and vector n, the set of all points Q with P→Q orthogonal to n forms a plane.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Thus u = 0 is orthogonal to all geodesies v = const., and vice versa.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various