orthogonal

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other.

   “A chord and the radius that bisects it are orthogonal.”

2. sıfat Of a pair of vectors: having a zero inner product; perpendicular.

   “The normal vector and tangent vector at a given point are orthogonal.”

3. sıfat Of a square matrix: such that its transpose is equal to its inverse.
4. sıfat Of a linear transformation: preserving its angles.
5. sıfat Of grid graphs, board games and polyominoes: vertical or horizontal but not diagonal.
6. sıfat Of a pair of elements in an ortholattice: each less than or equal to the orthocomplement of the other.
7. sıfat Statistically independent, with reference to variates.
8. sıfat Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately; of a design, exhibiting consistency and composability.

   “The content of the message should be orthogonal to the means of its delivery.”

9. sıfat Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other.

   “Even in a geostate, some people are willing to fight and die for their views, but the institutional change to a polystate seems somewhat orthogonal to such issues.”

10. isim An orthogonal line.

    “All of the orthogonals in this painting display an understanding of linear perspective.”