Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Cutting at right angles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Geom.) Cutting at right angles.
  • adjective (Geom.) that circle which cuts three given circles at right angles.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective geometry Cutting at right angles.

Etymologies

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ortho- + Ancient Greek meaning "to cleave".

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