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

Figure 2.69 Given a point P and vector n, the set of all points Q with P→Q orthogonal to n forms a plane.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

This last proposition may be stated in the form:—“The orthogonal projection of a circle is an ellipse”; and it permits the ready deduction of many properties of the ellipse from the circle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various