Usually means: Perpendicular or independent, in context.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word orthogonal:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. orthogonal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. orthogonal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orthogonal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. orthogonal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. orthogonal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Orthogonal, orthogonal: Wordnik
  7. orthogonal: Wiktionary
  8. orthogonal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. orthogonal: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. orthogonal: Dictionary.com
  11. Orthogonal (computing), Orthogonal (geometry), Orthogonal (novel), Orthogonal (series), Orthogonal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Orthogonal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. orthogonal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. orthogonal: Rhymezone
  15. Orthogonal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. orthogonal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. orthogonal: Free Dictionary
  18. orthogonal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. orthogonal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. orthogonal: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. orthogonal: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. orthogonal: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. Technopedia (No longer online)
  4. orthogonal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Orthogonal: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. GLOSSARY OF ORDINATION-RELATED TERMS (No longer online)
  3. orthogonal, orthogonal, orthogonal, orthogonal: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orthogonal: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. orthogonal: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See orthogonality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (geometry) Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other.
adjective:  (mathematics)
adjective:  Of a pair of vectors: having a zero inner product; perpendicular.
adjective:  Of a square matrix: such that its transpose is equal to its inverse.
adjective:  Of a linear transformation: preserving its angles.
adjective:  Of grid graphs, board games and polyominoes: vertical or horizontal but not diagonal.
adjective:  Of a pair of elements in an ortholattice: each less than or equal to the orthocomplement of the other.
adjective:  (statistics) Statistically independent, with reference to variates.
adjective:  (software engineering) Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately; of a design, exhibiting consistency and composability.
adjective:  Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other.
noun:  An orthogonal line.

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