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Synonyms rectangular
Derivation orthogonality


wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes.
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Synonyms extraneous, immaterial, impertinent
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T. Weiss contributed to the simulation and the two orthogonal oscillators model.
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The right-hand panel shows an orthogonal slice of the electron microscopic map.
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The modern theory of orthogonal polynomials is of a definite but limited scope.
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It is constrained sagitally by a boom freely rotating in three orthogonal axes.
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The second is an orthogonal line passing through the centroid of the chosen face.
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In 2006 it was upgraded with a 1.2MW experimental advanced orthogonal turbine.
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It's wrong in a perfectly orthogonal way, so it works, but not from causality.
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Also the term rectangular parallelepiped or orthogonal parallelepiped is used.
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An example of four mutually orthogonal digital signals is shown in the figure.
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  • Extraneous: not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point"
  • Statistically unrelated
  • Having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"
  • In mathematics, two vectors are orthogonal if they are perpendicular, i.e., they form a right angle. The word comes from the Greek ' (orthos), meaning "straight", and ' (gonia), meaning "angle".
  • Pertaining to right angles; perpendicular (to); Of two functions, linearly independent; having a zero inner product. ...
  • (orthogonally) In an orthogonal manner; perpendicularly; at right angles
  • (orthogonals) the converging diagonal lines that meet at the vanishing point in scientific perspective.
  • At right angles. In linear algebra, being "at right angles" is defined relative to a symmetric matrix P, such as the bending-energy matrix; two vectors x and y are orthogonal with respect to P if x^tPy=0. ...
  • A special projection of your scene which has no perspective distortion. Kind of a perspective-free drafting board view, used for precise alignments. All Views with the exception of the Camera View are Orthogonal. The term can be used interchangeably with the term orthographic.