Definition of orthogonal. Meaning of orthogonal. Synonyms of orthogonal

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Definition of orthogonal

Orthogonal
Orthogonal Or*thog"o*nal, a. [Cf. F. orthogonal.] Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another. Orthogonal projection. See under Orthographic.

Meaning of orthogonal from wikipedia

- In mathematics, orthogonality is the generalization of the geometric notion of perpendicularity. Orthogonality is also used with various meanings that...
- In linear algebra, an orthogonal matrix, or orthonormal matrix, is a real square matrix whose columns and rows are orthonormal vectors. One way to express...
- In mathematics, the orthogonal group in dimension n, denoted O(n), is the group of distance-preserving transformations of a Euclidean space of dimension...
- the concept of orthogonality can be used. A projection P{\displaystyle P} on a Hilbert space V{\displaystyle V} is called an orthogonal projection if it...
- the orthogonal complement of a subspace W of a vector space V equipped with a bilinear form B is the set W⊥ of all vectors in V that are orthogonal to...
- mathematics, an orthogonal polynomial sequence is a family of polynomials such that any two different polynomials in the sequence are orthogonal to each other...
- In mathematics, orthogonal functions belong to a function space that is a vector space equipped with a bilinear form. When the function space has an interval...
- In linear algebra, an orthogonal transformation is a linear transformation T : V → V on a real inner product space V, that preserves the inner product...
- In mathematics, an orthogonal array (more specifically, a fixed-level orthogonal array) is a "table" (array) whose entries come from a fixed finite set...
- In geometry, two circles are said to be orthogonal if their respective tangent lines at the points of intersection are perpendicular (meet at a right angle)...