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

Express v = 〈 8, −3, −3 〉 as a sum of orthogonal vectors such that one of the vectors has the same direction as u = 〈 2, 3, 2 〉 .

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

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

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

In order to discover the form of the stream of current lines we have to determine the orthogonal trajectories to this family of coaxial circles.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various