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

In this section, we introduce a product of two vectors that generates a third vector orthogonal to the first two.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Also used in comments on human discourse: "This may be orthogonal to the discussion, but...."

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.