DIAGONALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diagonally mean? 

• DIAGONALLY (adverb)
  The adverb DIAGONALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a diagonal manner

  Familiarity information: DIAGONALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIAGONALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a diagonal manner

Context example:

she lives diagonally across the street from us

Pertainym:

diagonal (connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face)

 Context examples 

The thong was cut across, diagonally, almost as clean as though done by a knife.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Cutting diagonally across the mottled plans is the long extensional fault of Inanna Fossa, which stretches eastward 370 miles (600 kilometers) from here to the western edge of the great nitrogen ice plains of Sputnik Planum.

(What’s Eating at Pluto?, NASA)