orthogonal

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正交,正交的,正统的,正向

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- : Mathematics. Also orthographic. pertaining to or involving right angles or perpendiculars: an orthogonal projection. defined so that the integral of the product of any two different functions is zero. defined so that the integral of the product of a function times the complex conjugate of any other function equals zero. having an inner product equal to zero. defined so that the length of a vector under the transformation equals the length of the original vector. defined so that its product with its transpose results in the identity matrix.
- : Crystallography. referable to a rectangular set of axes.

as insquare

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The memory representations were organized in what neuroscientists describe as an “orthogonal” dimension to the sensory representations, all within the same population of neurons.
This use of orthogonal coding to separate and protect information in the brain has been seen before.
The two orthogonal representations can then draw from overlapping neural activity without intruding on each other.
Actually, the issue of plural vs. singular is orthogonal to the dilemma she wants to pose.
They also seem to be a bit orthogonal to the kinds of structures that medicinal chemists make.
And that brings up another question about those bacterial targets, the ones that are so orthogonal to human cellular pathways.
The involutes are “orthogonal trajectories” of the tangents to the common evolute.
In the first place, each of these figures may be conceived as an orthogonal projection of a closed plane-faced polyhedron.
Velocities in linkages were determined by orthogonal components transferred from link to link.