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They detected and magnetically controlled a non-Ohmic conduction termed the second-order Hall effect, where voltage responds orthogonally and quadratically to the applied electric current.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2024

A few years earlier physicist John Wheeler had predicted that when matter and antimatter met, the resulting photons would be orthogonally polarized.

From Scientific American • Mar. 16, 2023

They operate sideways and orthogonally rather than obey all the hierarchies and dichotomies of their elders.

From Time • Mar. 12, 2013

This axis is pierced orthogonally with two holes, through one of which is passed the steel needle, while through the other is fixed square across the needle another stylus of silver or brass.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

Every circle through the limiting points cuts all circles of the system orthogonally; 5.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various