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RELATED WORD : orthogonal opposition

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective orthogonal has 3 senses

• orthogonal(s = adj.all) extraneous, immaterial, impertinent - not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point"
• orthogonal(s = adj.all) Array - statistically unrelated; Array
• orthogonal(s = adj.all) rectangular - having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"
Derived form noun orthogonality₂

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orthogonal

cube-shaped, cubed, cubic, cubiform, cuboid, diced, foursquare, normal, oblong, orthodiagonal, orthometric, perpendicular, plumb, plunging, precipitous, quadrangular, quadrate, quadriform, quadrilateral, rectangular, rhombic, rhomboid, right-angle, right-angled, right-angular, sheer, square, steep, straight-up, straight-up-and-down, tetragonal, tetrahedral, trapezohedral, trapezoid, up-and-down

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orthogonal

Verticality

N verticality, erectness, perpendicularity, right angle, normal, azimuth circle, wall, precipice, cliff, elevation, erection, square, plumb line, plummet, vertical, upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, normal, straight, bolt, upright, rampant, standing up, rectangular, orthogonal, vertically, up, on end, up on end, right on end, a plomb, endwise, one one's legs, at right angles.

Perpendicularity

N perpendicularity, orthogonality, verticality, orthogonal, perpendicular, rectangular, uncorrelated.

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