{"id":16415,"date":"2018-01-22T19:49:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T03:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=16415"},"modified":"2018-01-16T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T04:30:10","slug":"orthogonal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/01\/22\/orthogonal\/","title":{"rendered":"orthogonal"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>From 2010: <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2010\/01\/11\/orthogonal-ooh\/\">US Supreme Court Justices react<\/a> to use of the word \u201corthogonal\u201d in an oral argument.<\/p>\r\n<p>(In case any of y\u2019all aren\u2019t familiar with this use of the term: in computer circles, it generally means something along the lines of \u201cunrelated\u201d or \u201cindependent\u201d; if you say \u201cthat issue is orthogonal to what we\u2019re discussing,\u201d you\u2019re agreeing that the issue that was raised is an issue, but you\u2019re saying that it doesn\u2019t have direct bearing on the topic at hand. As Volokh implies, this usage derives (as far as I know) from its use in vector math.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-specific-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16778,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415\/revisions\/16778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}