Definitions for diagonal

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diagonal di·ag·o·nal

Spelling: [dahy-ag-uh-nl, -ag-nl]

IPA: /daɪˈæg ə nl, -ˈæg nl/

Diagonal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 291 anagrams from letters in diagonal (aadgilno).

Definitions for diagonal

noun

1. a diagonal line or plane.
2. virgule.
3. a diagonal row, part, pattern, etc.
4. Manège. (of a horse at a trot) the foreleg and the hind leg, diagonally opposite, which move forward simultaneously.
5. diagonal cloth.
6. Mathematics. a set of entries in a square matrix running either from upper left to lower right (main diagonal or principal diagonal) or lower left to upper right (secondary diagonal)
7. Chess. one of the oblique lines of squares on a chessboard:

adjective

1. Mathematics. connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, as a straight line. extending from one edge of a solid figure to an opposite edge, as a plane.
2. having an oblique direction.
3. having oblique lines, ridges, markings, etc.

Origin of diagonal

1535-45; Latin diagōnālis Greek diagṓn(ios) from angle to angle (see dia-, -gon) + Latin -ālis -al¹

Examples for diagonal

Some of the young chaps have their dress-coats made of diagonal.

A long, diagonal cross from Marcelo saw the ball reach Hulk, who brought it down to his feet from the top of his monumental chest.

The young man weaves through clusters of bamboo and cuts a diagonal slash into a tree, positioning a hollow log at the end.

The jump was diagonal, and made under most difficult circumstances.

Taking this diagonal line as the length, describe another square.

A door to the left, set in a diagonal wall, gives on to a corridor.

Others were paired with sportswear-inspired tops—think a tracksuit zip-up made glam with diagonal decorative panels.

I bought wine and I made a wine list and it was the first wine list of its kind: vertical, horizontal, and diagonal.

Long strips of thin, white paper, about four feet wide, were spread in diagonal lines all over the hall.

The sand gully opened towards the sea in a diagonal direction.