Meanings
adjectiveorthonormal (not comparable)
- not comparablefunctional analysisgeometryOf a set of vectors, both orthogonal and normalized.
Given a set of linearly independent vectors, it is often useful to convert them into an orthonormal set of vectors.
2025 March 21 (last accessed), “Lesson 10”, in University College London, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2025, 6.4 Gram-Schmidt Process, page 2 - not comparablefunctional analysisgeometryOf a linear transformation: that preserves both angles and lengths.
Origin
Blend of orthogonal + normal, equivalent to ortho- + normal.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian ортонормиран
- ортонормиран (ortonormiran)mathematical term
Czech ortonormální
- ortonormálnímathematical term
Dutch orthonormaal
- orthonormaalmathematical term
Finnish ortonormaali
- ortonormaalimathematical term
German orthonormal
- orthonormalmathematical term
Greek ορθοκανονικός
- ορθοκανονικός (orthokanonikós)mathematical term
Swedish ortonormal, ortonormerad
- ortonormalmathematical term
- ortonormeradmathematical term
Vietnamese trực chuẩn
- trực chuẩnmathematical term
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