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

Find a unit vector orthogonal to both a and b, where a = 〈 4, 0, 3 〉 and b = 〈 1, 1, 4 〉 .

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

If the planes are intersecting, but not orthogonal, find the measure of the angle between them.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

The area of the ellipse is πab, where a, b are the semi-axes; this result may be deduced by regarding the ellipse as the orthogonal projection of a circle, or by means of the calculus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various