Definitions for orthogonal

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orthogonal or·thog·o·nal

Spelling: [awr-thog-uh-nl]

IPA: /ɔrˈθɒg ə nl/

Orthogonal is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 342 anagrams from letters in orthogonal (aghlnooort).

Definitions for orthogonal

adjective

1. Mathematics. Also, orthographic. pertaining to or involving right angles or perpendiculars: (of a system of real functions) defined so that the integral of the product of any two different functions is zero. (of a system of complex functions) defined so that the integral of the product of a function times the complex conjugate of any other function equals zero. (of two vectors) having an inner product equal to zero. (of a linear transformation) defined so that the length of a vector under the transformation equals the length of the original vector. (of a square matrix) defined so that its product with its transpose results in the identity matrix.
2. Crystallography. referable to a rectangular set of axes.

Origin of orthogonal

1565-75; obsolete orthogon(ium) right triangle (Late Latin orthogōnium Greek orthogṓnion (neuter) right-angled, equivalent to ortho- ortho- + -gōnion Examples for orthogonal

The involutes are “orthogonal trajectories” of the tangents to the common evolute.

And that brings up another question about those bacterial targets, the ones that are so orthogonal to human cellular pathways.

In the first place, each of these figures may be conceived as an orthogonal projection of a closed plane-faced polyhedron.

Velocities in linkages were determined by orthogonal components transferred from link to link.

Actually, the issue of plural vs. singular is orthogonal to the dilemma she wants to pose.