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Diagonal   /daɪˈægənəl/   Listen
Diagonal

adjective
1.
Connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face.
2.
Having an oblique or slanted direction.  Synonyms: aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping.
noun
1.
(geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent.
2.
A line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric.  Synonym: bias.
3.
An oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard.
4.
(mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry.
5.
A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information.  Synonyms: separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule.



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"Diagonal" Quotes from Famous Books



... condescending to a joke—rather hard than firm—reasoning with no one—not even himself—a good father, and doubtless a good husband—(a duty, by the way, and not a virtue;) in short, evil but not bad. The principal, the diagonal line of this man's character was obstinacy; he was proud of it, and therein compared himself to Napoleon, when he had once fixed what he called his will upon an absurdity, he went to its furthest length, holding ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 • Various
... with some difficulty, and diagonal struts were fastened from the top of the front row to the base of the rear. Horizontal beams then secured the entire line ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker
... attached to another conductor, but thrown into an uninsulated state by connection with a discharging train (292.). The two intervals or places of discharge n and o could be varied at pleasure, their extent being measured by the occasional introduction of a diagonal scale. It is evident, that, as the balls A and B connected with the same conductor are always charged at once, and that discharge may take place to either of the balls connected with the discharging ...
— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday
... timidly within, his head bowed as if in dread of knocking against the top of the door. The room was a perfect fac-simile of Milly's parlor at the other end of the diagonal, save that instead of the festive bottles and paper bags on the small side-table, there was a cheerless clothes-brush. Like Milly's, the room contained a round table, a chest of drawers with decanters on the top, and a high mantelpiece decorated with ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... the country are you from?" asked Mrs. Perkin, with her usual diagonal upward toss of the chin, but without lifting her ...
— Mary Marston • George MacDonald


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