orthogonal

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The "treadmill" also employed two high-speed orthogonal cameras to capture unique locomotion features -- one a side view, the other from the bottom.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

The technical term for each cherry red form is an orthotope, defined as “the Cartesian product of orthogonal intervals known as a hyperrectangle, sometimes called a parallelotope.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2022

Express v = 〈 8, −3, −3 〉 as a sum of orthogonal vectors such that one of the vectors has the same direction as u = 〈 2, 3, 2 〉 .

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

For which value of x is p = 〈 2, 8, −1 〉 orthogonal to q = 〈 x, −1, 2 〉 ?

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

V. be perpendicular, be orthogonal; intersect at right angles, be rectangular, be at right angles to, intersect at 90 degrees; have no correlation.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark