Adjective: orthogonal or'thó-gu-nul
- Having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles
"wind and sea may displace the ship's centre of gravity along three orthogonal axes";
- rectangular
- Statistically unrelated
"The two variables were found to be orthogonal in the study"
- Not pertinent to the matter under consideration
"an issue orthogonal to the debate";
- extraneous, immaterial, impertinent
See also: beside the point, irrelevant, perpendicular, unrelated
Encyclopedia: Orthogonal