The expression âcoffee breakâ was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
ORTHOGONAL
orthogonal, rectangular
(adjective) having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; âwind and sea may displace the shipâs center of gravity along three orthogonal axesâ; âa rectangular Cartesian coordinate systemâ
orthogonal
(adjective) statistically unrelated
extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal
(adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration; âan issue extraneous to the debateâ; âthe price was immaterialâ; âmentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the pointâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
orthogonal (not comparable)
(geometry) Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other.
(mathematics)
Of a pair of vectors: having a zero inner product; perpendicular.
Of a square matrix: such that its transpose is equal to its inverse.
Of a linear transformation: preserving its angles.
Of grid graphs, board games and polyominoes: vertical or horizontal but not diagonal.
Of a pair of elements in an ortholattice: each less than or equal to the orthocomplement of the other.
(statistics) Statistically independent, with reference to variates.
(software engineering) Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately.
Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other.
Noun
orthogonal (plural orthogonals)
An orthogonal line
Source: Wiktionary
Or*thog"o*nal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. orthogonal.]
Definition: Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another. Orthogonal projection. See under Orthographic.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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