longitudinal vs orthogonal

longitudinal

adj
  • Forward and/or backward, relative to some defined direction. 

  • Relating to length, or to longitude. 

  • Running in the direction of the long axis of a body. 

  • Sampling data over time rather than merely once. 

noun
  • Any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc. 

  • A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail. 

orthogonal

adj
  • Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other. 

  • Of a square matrix: such that its transpose is equal to its inverse. 

  • Of grid graphs, board games and polyominoes: vertical or horizontal but not diagonal. 

  • Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately; of a design, exhibiting consistency and composability. 

  • Of a pair of vectors: having a zero inner product; perpendicular. 

  • Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other. 

  • Of a pair of elements in an ortholattice: each less than or equal to the orthocomplement of the other. 

  • Of a linear transformation: preserving its angles. 

  • Statistically independent, with reference to variates. 

noun
  • An orthogonal line 

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