Showing posts with label o. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 27, 2007

Thursday, January 25, 2007

onomatopoeia

onomatopoeia (n)

1. The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.

2. A word which has the property of onomatopoeia, such as "moo" or "hiss".

Friday, January 19, 2007

orthogonal

orthogonal (adj)

1. (geometry) Pertaining to right angles; perpendicular (to).

(mathematics)

2. Of two functions, linearly independent; having a zero inner product.

3. Of a square matrix that is the inverse of its transpose.

4. Of a linear transformation that preserves angles.

5. (statistics) Statistically independent, with reference to variates.

6. (software engineering) Able to be treated separately.

omnific

omnific (adj)

1. Capable of making or doing anything; all-creating.