At the design stage, a design should be chosen to be as nearly orthogonal as possible to the nuisance effects. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Matthew C, the reason they are supposed to be orthogonal is because g is the correlation among all the tests. From Wordnik.com. [I'll Defend IQ, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
These are the so-called orthogonal transformations. From Wordnik.com. [SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY] Reference
I have never been described as orthogonal - and yet it is such a good descriptor for how I see the world. From Wordnik.com. [strange beasts with flat tyres] Reference
You use the phrase "orthogonal" and then accuse me of being "self-important?". From Wordnik.com. [Report Says Current 520 Plan “Virtually Precludes” Rail in the Future « PubliCola] Reference
ΨWORLD i are mutually orthogonal and consequently. From Wordnik.com. [Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics] Reference
Your argument is orthogonal to the point I was making. From Wordnik.com. [Come Together, Right Now: The Internet's Unlit Fuse] Reference
Explicit generation of orthogonal grids for ocean models. From Wordnik.com. [Global coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models] Reference
You've got to have two orthogonal coordinates that you can. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2004] Reference
Dawkins classifies replicators using two orthogonal distinctions. From Wordnik.com. [Units and Levels of Selection] Reference
Espousing common descent and being a good president are orthogonal. From Wordnik.com. [It Does Matter What People Think About How the World Works] Reference
Obama's votes to fund the war are orthogonal to his position against the war. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Adviser Wolfson: Obama's Claim That Bill Is Fibbing Is A "Right Wing Talking Point"] Reference
'Obama's votes to fund the war are orthogonal to his position against the war. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Adviser Wolfson: Obama's Claim That Bill Is Fibbing Is A "Right Wing Talking Point"] Reference
These basis states form an incomplete orthogonal set of basis vectors for the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum Hyperion] Reference
For intuitively whether a property is natural is orthogonal to whether it is sui generis. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Non-Naturalism] Reference
But, there are also other factors. .a complex-system of interacting non-orthogonal factors. From Wordnik.com. [Weltmeisterschaft] Reference
These are orthogonal issues and little of my argument with Woit has bearing on your question. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference
On a completely orthogonal note, has anyone ever asked you if you're have a dangerous talent?. From Wordnik.com. [italianbeef Diary Entry] Reference
These techniques are mostly orthogonal to Bill's; an optimal solution might incorporate both. From Wordnik.com. [Better Bayesian Filtering] Reference
Velocities in linkages were determined by orthogonal components transferred from link to link. From Wordnik.com. [Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt] Reference
In catering for the multiple relata, several of the orthogonal partitionings may come into play. From Wordnik.com. [Tropes] Reference
Integration of circular & rectangular (orthogonal) geometries vs. conventional circular geometry. From Wordnik.com. [Squaring The Circle] Reference
The dogma tolerates social conflicts insofar as they remain orthogonal to the economic fault lines. From Wordnik.com. [Saving the American Left: The Case for a New Progressive Creed] Reference
Sz2 at the same time selects three orthogonal rays in physical space, namely by fixing a coordinate system. From Wordnik.com. [The Kochen-Specker Theorem] Reference
Now, the equivalent in R3 of an arbitrary orthogonal triple in H3, is, again, an arbitrary triple of orthogonal rays. From Wordnik.com. [The Kochen-Specker Theorem] Reference
This means in effect that of every set of four orthogonal rays in H4 exactly one is assigned the number 1, the others 0. From Wordnik.com. [The Kochen-Specker Theorem] Reference
It is not, to be sure, automatically orthogonal to exact similarity, but one limits oneself to orthogonal partitionings. From Wordnik.com. [Tropes] Reference
The language has a small core, and powerful, highly orthogonal libraries that are as carefully designed as the core language. From Wordnik.com. [Being Popular] Reference
I don't know if it's exactly right to say that ambition is a component of determination, but they're not entirely orthogonal. From Wordnik.com. [The Anatomy of Determination] Reference
Surely you mean that you think that there is a component of ‘good president’ orthogonal to ‘espousing common descent’?. From Wordnik.com. [It Does Matter What People Think About How the World Works] Reference
Why do I have the feeling that tough talk and results are once again going to not just be orthogonal, but inversely correlated?. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: I Will Kill Bin Laden; Obama Won't Say What He'd Do] Reference
(And that “three times pressure” is replaced by “the sum of the three orthogonal pressures” in more general situations.). From Wordnik.com. [Dark Matter: Still Existing] Reference
E point on the tool at which primary and secondary cutting edges meet tool orthogonal clearance angles on the tool - planing tool. From Wordnik.com. [6. Basic Terms of Cutting] Reference
Perhaps their commitment to pursuit of the discipline or some other nebulous concept, but tolerance and competence are orthogonal. From Wordnik.com. [Bell curves] Reference
The quantum state could well be a mix between | x and | y, but my detection process can filter only one of both “orthogonal states”. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum Hyperion] Reference
Then here he came, tramping in police boots to disturb the hierarchies as they were laid down by bringing in an entirely orthogonal power. From Wordnik.com. [Farthing] Reference
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