Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Perpendicularly; at right angles; with right angles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Perpendicularly; at right angles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
orthogonal manner;perpendicularly ; atright angles
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More orthogonally, my fantasy The Dragons of the Cuyahoga was actually inspired by a SF novel, In The Cube by David Alexander Smith.
MIND MELD: Who are Your Literary Influences in the Ongoing Conversation of Science Fiction? 2009
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A non-sacred, state-recognized contract certified by a state authorized agent orthogonally dressed up with whatever ritual elements, religious or not, you want to throw on top to call it “marriage” by your own definition.
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I'd say its peculiar starting place -- the crossover between erotic fetish and violent automobile crashes -- is deliberately taken orthogonally from what the reader might expect I suppose the reader might expect a novel about sexual sado-masochism into uncannier realms, where it is not just violence upon the body but the machine, and death, that constitute our erotic life.
J G Ballard, Crash (1973) Adam Roberts 2010
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A non-sacred, state-recognized contract certified by a state authorized agent orthogonally dressed up with whatever ritual elements, religious or not, you want to throw on top to call it “marriage” by your own definition.
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Areas: An area is defined as a set of 1 or more cards, all of the same suit, all touching orthogonally.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Areas: An area is defined as a set of 1 or more cards, all of the same suit, all touching orthogonally.
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Your hypothetical global criminal would need to bring the asteroid down on and allow the transglobal vulcanism to well up on 2 enemy states orthogonally positioned, while his own state was offset 1/4 of an earth circumference from the target states.
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Playing a card: All cards played must touch orthogonally at least one other card on the table.
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All pieces, except the knight, move either orthogonally (that is, forward, backward, or to the side), or diagonally.
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Playing a card: All cards played must touch orthogonally at least one other card on the table.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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