different between diagonal vs gyrodiagonal

English

Etymology

From Middle French diagonal, from Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”), from ??? (diá, “across”) + ????? (g?nía, “angle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da??æ??n?l/, /da??æ?n?l/

Adjective

diagonal (not comparable)

1. (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
2. Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
3. Having a slanted or oblique direction.
4. Of or related to the cater-corner (diagonally opposite) legs of a quadruped, whether the front left and back right or front right and back left.

Synonyms

• (having a slanted or oblique direction): aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping

Derived terms

• diagonally
• diagonalization
• diagonal argument

Translations

Noun

diagonal (plural diagonals)

1. (geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
2. Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly:
   1. (geometry) A line or plane at an oblique angle to another.
   2. (fashion) A line or cut across a fabric at an oblique angle to its sides.
   3. (typography, uncommon) Synonym of slash ?/?.
      • 1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:

        Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.

Synonyms

• (oblique line or cut across a fabric): bias
• (oblique punctuation mark): See slash

Antonyms

• (oblique punctuation mark): See backslash

Derived terms

• diagonal mark

Translations

Anagrams

• ganoidal, gonadial

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /di.?.?o?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /di.?.?u?nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /di.a.?o?nal/

Adjective

diagonal (masculine and feminine plural diagonals)

1. diagonal

Derived terms

• diagonalment

Noun

diagonal f (plural diagonals)

1. diagonal

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dia?ona?l/, [d?ia??o?næ??l]

Adjective

diagonal

1. diagonal

Inflection

Noun

diagonal c (singular definite diagonalen, plural indefinite diagonaler)

1. diagonal

Declension

References

• “diagonal” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis.

Adjective

diagonal (feminine singular diagonale, masculine plural diagonaux, feminine plural diagonales)

1. diagonal, transverse, oblique

Derived terms

• diagonalement

Further reading

• “diagonal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis.

Adjective

diagonal m or f (plural diagonais)

1. diagonal

Derived terms

• diagonalmente

Further reading

• “diagonal” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

diagonal (not comparable)

1. diagonal

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis.

Adjective

diagonal m or f (plural diagonais, comparable)

1. (geometry) diagonal (joining two nonadjacent vertices)
2. diagonal (having a slanted or oblique direction)

Derived terms

• diagonalmente

Noun

diagonal f (plural diagonais)

1. diagonal (something arranged diagonally or obliquely)
2. (geometry) diagonal (diagonal line or plane)

Further reading

• “diagonal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French diagonal

Adjective

diagonal m or n (feminine singular diagonal?, masculine plural diagonali, feminine and neuter plural diagonale)

1. diagonal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

diagonal (plural diagonales)

1. diagonal

Derived terms

• diagonalmente
• matriz diagonal

Noun

diagonal f (plural diagonales)

1. diagonal

Derived terms

• diagonal principal

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin diag?n?lis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diag?nios, “from angle to angle”).

Adjective

diagonal (not comparable)

1. diagonal

Declension

Derived terms

• diagonalt

Noun

diagonal c

1. diagonal

Declension

Derived terms

• diagonala

English

Etymology

gyro- +? diagonal

Noun

gyrodiagonal (plural gyrodiagonals)

1. (mathematics) A diagonal in gyrovector space.