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orthogonal trajectory

noun

Mathematics.
  1. the locus of a point whose path cuts each curve of a family of curves at right angles.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of orthogonal trajectory1

First recorded in 1810–20
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It is easy to show that the orthogonal trajectory of the system of circles is another system of circles all passing through the sink and the source, and as a corollary of this fact, that the electric resistance of a circular disk of uniform thickness is the same between any two points taken anywhere on its circumference as sink and source.

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