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Big bling sunglasses cover her eyes; her top (all that is visible) is a dynamic black and white design cut across the diagonal and cutting across the other diagonal is her gun.

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  1. adjective Mathematics Joining two nonadjacent vertices of a polygon.
  2. adjective Mathematics Joining two vertices of a polyhedron not in the same face.
  3. adjective Having a slanted or oblique direction.
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  • And if you go on the diagonal, you get content and form -- and then beauty and truth. —  Scott McCloud on comics
  • He pours me a glass from the fridge and we sit down at his kitchen table at a slight diagonal, as if that might be less weird than facing each other directly, but of course it's weirder, because when would you ever sit diagonally across from someone if there are just two of you? —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#4
  • For notebook that has 13. 3inch diagonal, SL300 it pretty beefy, at least compared to other 13. 3inch models. —  OCTools
  • Big bling sunglasses cover her eyes; her top (all that is visible) is a dynamic black and white design cut across the diagonal and cutting across the other diagonal is her gun. —  Wheelchair Dancer
  • An updated HP Pavilion dv7 notebook PC offers a 17. 3-inch diagonal, 16: 9 aspect ratio display and improved graphics processor. —  WebWire | Recent Headlines
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horizontal ·  perpendicular ·  jagged ·  oblique ·  upward ·  zigzag ·  wavy ·  upper ·  circular ·  angular ·  parallel ·  concentric

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diagonal:   diagonals
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin diagōnālis, from Greek diagōnios, from angle to angle : dia-, dia- + gōniā, angle, corner; see genu-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = F. Spanish Portuguese diagonal = Italian diagonale = Dutch diagonaal = G. Danish Swedish diagonal, from Latin diagonalis, from diagonios, from Greek διαγών-ιος, from angle to angle, diagonal, from διά, through, across, + γωνία, a corner, angle.
 

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