An orthogonal pair of polarized filters put together will block all light, but put a third one between them at a diagonal angle and some light will pass through.
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Orthogonal
//ɔːˈθɒɡ.ə.nəl//
Synonyms for "orthogonal" (43 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (13)
Adjective(2 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (21)
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10 entriesderived from
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4 entriesrelated to
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4 entriesTranslations
63 translations across 22 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- правоъгълен adj (of right angles)
Catalan
2 entries- ortogonal adj (of right angles)
- ortogonal adj (mathematical term)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 正交的 adj (mathematical term)
Czech
2 entries- kolmý adj (mathematical term)
- pravoúhlý adj (of right angles)
Danish
2 entries- ortogonal adj (of right angles)
- vinkelret adj (of right angles)
Dutch
3 entries- loodrecht adj (of right angles)
- orthogonaal adj (of right angles)
- orthogonaal adj (mathematical term)
Finnish
4 entries- ortogonaalinen adj (of right angles)
- ortogonaalinen adj (mathematical term)
- riippumaton adj (software: able to be treated separately)
- suorakulmainen adj (of right angles)
French
4 entries- indépendant adj (software: able to be treated separately)
- orthogonal adj (of right angles)
- orthogonal adj (mathematical term)
- orthogonal adj (statistically independent)
Georgian
1 entries- მართკუთხა adj (mathematical term)
German
3 entries- orthogonal adj (mathematical term)
- rechtwinklig adj (of right angles)
- senkrecht adj (mathematical term)
Greek
1 entries- ορθογώνιος adj (of right angles)
Hindi
2 entries- लंब कोणीय adj (of right angles)
- लांबिक adj (of right angles)
Hungarian
2 entries- ortogonális adj (of right angles)
- ortogonális adj (mathematical term)
Irish
4 entries- dronuilleach adj (of right angles)
- ingearach adj (of right angles)
- ingearach adj (mathematical term)
- ingearach adj (statistically independent)
Italian
1 entries- ortogonale adj (of right angles)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- ortogonal adj (of right angles)
- ortogonal adj (mathematical term)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- ortogonal adj (of right angles)
- ortogonal adj (mathematical term)
Polish
4 entries- niezależny adj (software: able to be treated separately)
- ortogonalny adj (of right angles)
- ortogonalny adj (mathematical term)
- ortogonalny adj (statistically independent)
Portuguese
2 entries- ortogonal adj (of right angles)
- perpendicular adj (of right angles)
Russian
4 entries- ортогона́льный adj (of right angles)
- ортогона́льный adj (mathematical term)
- ортогона́льный adj (statistically independent)
- прямоуго́льный adj (of right angles)
Spanish
3 entries- independiente adj (software: able to be treated separately)
- ortogonal adj (of right angles)
- ortogonal adj (mathematical term)
Swedish
4 entries- ortogonal adj (of right angles)
- ortogonal adj (mathematical term)
- ortogonal adj (statistically independent)
- rätvinklig adj (of right angles)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Prove that straight line AB is orthogonal to straight line DC.
Source: tatoeba (13074405)
These two lines are orthogonal.
Source: tatoeba (13074407)
A chord and the radius that bisects it are orthogonal.
Source: wiktionary
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