Difference between Orthogonal and Rectangular

What is the difference between Orthogonal and Rectangular?

Orthogonal as an adjective is pertaining to right angles; perpendicular (to) while Rectangular as an adjective is having a shape like a rectangle.

Orthogonal

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: pertaining to right angles; perpendicular (to) Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other. # Of two functions, linearly independent; having a zero inner product. #: The normal vector and tangent vector at a given point are orthogonal. # Of a square matrix that is the inverse of its transpose # Of a linear transformation that preserves angles statistically independent, with reference to variates Able to be treated separately.

Rectangular

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a shape like a rectangle.

We hope you now know whether to use Orthogonal or Rectangular in your sentence.

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