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ORTHOGONALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of lying or intersecting at right angles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("orthogonality" is a kind of...):
oblongness; rectangularity (the property of being shaped like a rectangle)
Derivation:
orthogonal (having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The relation of opposition between things at right angles
Synonyms:
orthogonal opposition; orthogonality; perpendicularity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("orthogonality" is a kind of...):
opposition (a direction opposite to another)
