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orthogonal

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orthogonal in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. not pertinent to the matter under consideration
    "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point"
    extraneous  immaterial  impertinent  orthogonal 
  2. having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles
    "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"
    orthogonal  rectangular 
  3. statistically unrelated
    orthogonal 
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