English-Finnish translations for orthogonal

• ortogonaalinen
• kohtisuora
• riippumaton
• suorakulmainen
• tilastollisesti riippumaton

Definition of orthogonal

• Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other
• Statistically independent, with reference to variates
• Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other
• An orthogonal line

Examples

• A chord and the radius that bisects it are orthogonal
• The normal vector and tangent vector at a given point are orthogonal
• The content of the message should be orthogonal to the means of its delivery

Related words

• orthogonalization
• orthogonality
• orthogonalize
• orthogonally
• bioorthogonal
• orthogonalisation
• orthogonal matrix
• orthogonal complement of a subspace
• orthogonal projection