orthogonal
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
- Click any word to expand it.
Senses
Sense 1 adjective
not pertinent to the matter under consideration
an issue extraneous to the debate
Related & opposite
- immateriality derivation
- extraneousness derivation
- irrelevant similar to
Sense 2 adjective
statistically unrelated
Related & opposite
- unrelated similar to
Sense 3 adjective
having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles
wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes
Related & opposite
- orthogonality derivation
- perpendicular similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | immateriality |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | extraneousness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | irrelevant |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | unrelated |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | orthogonality |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | perpendicular |