# 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 notion of perpendicularity to the linear algebra of bilinear forms. Two elements u and v of...
- 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...
- mathematics, an orthogonal polynomial sequence is a family of polynomials such that any two different polynomials in the sequence are orthogonal to each other...
- 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...
- In mathematics, orthogonal coordinates are defined as a set of d coordinates q = (q1, q2, ..., qd) in which the coordinate surfaces all meet at right angles...
- 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...
- mathematics an orthogonal trajectory is a curve, which intersects any curve of a given pencil of (planar) curves orthogonally. For example, the orthogonal trajectories...
- In telecommunications, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a type of digital transmission and a method of encoding digital data on multiple...
- 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...