ORTHOGONALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does orthogonality mean? 

• ORTHOGONALITY (noun)
  The noun ORTHOGONALITY has 2 senses:

1. the relation of opposition between things at right angles

2. the quality of lying or intersecting at right angles

  Familiarity information: ORTHOGONALITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORTHOGONALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The relation of opposition between things at right angles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

orthogonal opposition; orthogonality; perpendicularity

Hypernyms ("orthogonality" is a kind of...):

opposition (a direction opposite to another)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

This system places the electrodes closer to the heart to achieve better orthogonality and a homogeneous lead field.

(Lead Placement McFee-Parungao, NCI Thesaurus)