Orthogonal Definition

ôr-thŏgə-nəl
adjective
Having to do with right angles; perpendicular; rectangular.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to a matrix whose transpose equals its inverse.
American Heritage
Of or relating to a linear transformation that preserves the length of vectors.
American Heritage
Very different or unrelated; sharply divergent.
American Heritage
(mathematics)
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Origin of Orthogonal

  • From Greek orthogōnios ortho- ortho- gōniā angle genu-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Medieval Latin orthogonalis, from Latin orthogonius (“right-angled").

    From Wiktionary

Orthogonal Sentence Examples

  • Such a determinant is of importance in the theory of orthogonal substitution.

  • We may therefore form an orthogonal transformation in association with every skew determinant which has its leading diagonal elements unity, for the Zn(n-I) quantities b are clearly arbitrary.

  • This is called the direct orthogonal substitution, because the sense of rotation from the axis of X i to the axis of X, is the same as that from that of x i to that of x 2.

  • In both cases the solution can be made orthogonal to any number of specified functions.

  • Orthogonal System.-In particular, if we consider the transformation from one pair of rectangular axes to another pair of rectangular axes we obtain an orthogonal system which we will now briefly inquire into.

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