The difference between Normal and Orthogonal

When used as nouns, normal means a line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane, whereas orthogonal means an orthogonal line.

When used as adjectives, normal means according to norms or rules, whereas orthogonal means of two objects, at right angles.

check bellow for the other definitions of Normal and Orthogonal

  1. Normal as an adjective:

    according to norms or rules

    Examples:

    "Organize the data into third normal form."

  2. Normal as an adjective:

    healthy; not sick or ill

    Examples:

    "John is feeling normal again."

  3. Normal as an adjective (education, of a school):

    teaching teachers how to teach

    Examples:

    "My grandmother attended Mankato State Normal School."

  4. Normal as an adjective (chemistry):

    of, relating to, or being a solution containing one equivalent weight of solute per litre of solution

  5. Normal as an adjective (organic chemistry):

    describing a straight chain isomer of an aliphatic hydrocarbon, or an aliphatic compound in which a substituent is in the 1- position of such a hydrocarbon

  6. Normal as an adjective (physics, of a mode in an oscillating system):

    in which all parts of an object vibrate at the same frequency

  7. Normal as an adjective (rail transport, of points):

    in the default position, set for the most frequently used route

  8. Normal as an adjective (geometry):

    perpendicular to a tangent of a curve or derivative of a surface

  9. Normal as an adjective (mathematics):

    adhering to or being what is considered natural or regular in a particular field or context: whose digits, in any base representation, enjoy a uniform distribution with cosets which form a group which is the splitting field of a family of polynomials in K which has a very specific bell curve shape; that is or has the qualities of a normal distribution which has a normal distribution; which is associated with random variable that has a normal distribution which is pre-compact which is strictly monotonically increasing and continuous with respect to the order topology which commutes with its conjugate transpose which commutes with its adjoint being (as a morphism) or containing (as a category) only normal epimorphism(s) or monomorphism(s), that is, those which are the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively in which disjoint closed sets can be separated by disjoint neighborhoods

  1. Normal as a noun (geometry):

    a line or vector that is perpendicular to another line, surface, or plane.

  2. Normal as a noun (slang, countable):

    a person who is normal, who fits into mainstream society, as opposed to those who live alternative lifestyles.

  3. Normal as a noun (uncountable):

    the usual state.

    Examples:

    "His workload is now back to normal."

    "Heavy workload is the new normal."

  1. Orthogonal as an adjective (geometry):

    Of two objects, at right angles; perpendicular to each other.

    Examples:

    "A chord and the radius that bisects it are orthogonal."

  2. Orthogonal as an adjective (mathematics):

    Of a pair of vectors: having a zero inner product; perpendicular. Of a square matrix: such that its transpose is equal to its inverse. Of a linear transformation: preserving its angles. Of grid graphs, board games and polyominoes: vertical or horizontal but not diagonal.

    Examples:

    "The normal vector and tangent vector at a given point are orthogonal."

  3. Orthogonal as an adjective (statistics):

    Statistically independent, with reference to variates.

  4. Orthogonal as an adjective (software engineering):

    Of two or more aspects of a problem, able to be treated separately.

    Examples:

    "The content of the message should be orthogonal to the means of its delivery."

  5. Orthogonal as an adjective:

    Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of or irrelevant to each other.

  1. Orthogonal as a noun:

    An orthogonal line

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