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

The normal vectors are orthogonal, so the corresponding planes are orthogonal as well.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Determine whether the planes are parallel, orthogonal, or neither.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Adj. vertical, upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, normal, straight, bolt, upright; rampant; standing up &c. v.; rectangular, orthogonal &c.

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