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orthogonal

[awr-thog-uh-nl] / ɔrˈθɒg ə nl /


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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

Show that u × v and 2i − 14j + 2k cannot be orthogonal for any α real number, where u = i + 7j − k and v = αi + 5j + k.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

Find all two-dimensional vectors a orthogonal to vector b = ⟨ 5, −6 ⟩ .

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

Edsger Dijkstra, affirming the need for an orthogonal method of coping with radical novelty, concludes that this "amounts to creating and learning a new foreign language that cannot be translated into one's mother tongue."

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin


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