orthogonal
[awr-thog-uh-nl]
adjective
Mathematics.
- Also orthographic.pertaining to or involving right angles or perpendiculars: an orthogonal projection.
- (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.
Crystallography. referable to a rectangular set of axes.
Origin of orthogonal
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Velocities in linkages were determined by orthogonal components transferred from link to link.
Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of WattEugene S. Ferguson
In the first place, each of these figures may be conceived as an orthogonal projection of a closed plane-faced polyhedron.
The involutes are “orthogonal trajectories” of the tangents to the common evolute.
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