orthogonal

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If the base design is orthogonal, the resulting designs are orthogonal; likewise, if the base design is nearly orthogonal, the resulting designs are nearly orthogonal.

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  1. adjective Relating to or composed of right angles.
  2. adjective Mathematics Of or relating to a matrix whose transpose equals its inverse.
  3. adjective Mathematics Of or relating to a linear transformation that preserves the length of vectors.

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  • Simulations also show that the OPA-orthogonal least squares (OPA-OLS) algorithm, which combines OPA with the OLS algorithm, results in better performance for forecasting trends. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • For CO2, the substitutes are slightly orthogonal - the Japanese different footprint than OCO would have used, and the AIRS instrument on Aqua has recently been used to produce a timeseries of mid-troposphere CO2 concentrations since 2004. —  RealClimate
  • The Ibuki and AIRS data will help with this same issue, but OCO data would have been somewhat orthogonal. —  RealClimate
  • In this paper, we present a delay-locked loop (DLL) technique for performing a combined symbol and sampling clock synchronization in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The solution to this was, in part, a switch from the early, cheap CAP (carrierless amplitude / phase) modulation, which treated the entire swath of spectrum allotted to DSL as one big modem signal, more or less, to DMT (discrete multi-tone) modulation, which is quite close to OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) in some of its particulars. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
 

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  1. From Greek orthogōnios : ortho-, ortho- + gōniā, angle; see genu-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from orthogon + -al.
 

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/ɔrˈθɑgənəl/
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