orthogonal
pronunciation
How to pronounce orthogonal in British English:
UK [ɔ:'θɒgənl]
How to pronounce orthogonal in American English:
US [ɔ'θɒgənəl]
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- Adjective:
- not pertinent to the matter under consideration
- statistically unrelated
- having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles
Word Origin
- orthogonal (adj.)
- 1570s, from French orthogonal, from orthogone, from Late Latin orthogonius, from Greek orthogonios "right-angled," from ortho- "straight" (see ortho-) + gonia "angle" (see -gon). Related: Orthogonally.
Example
- 1. Preparation technology of imiquimod chitosan nanoparticle optimized by orthogonal test .
- 2. Construction of compactly supported bivariate orthogonal wavelet filter .
- 3. Orthogonal experiment on the optimum culture conditions of paecilomyces cicadae .
- 4. The subject of orthogonal trajectories remained dormant .
- 5. Optimization on sulfated technology of codonopsis pilosula polysaccharides by orthogonal design .