Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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adj
Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Having a slanted or oblique direction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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name
A city and town in Iowa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
Anything forming or resembling such a line
A line or plane at an oblique angle to another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
Anything forming or resembling such a line
A line or cut across a fabric at an oblique angle to its sides.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fashion, lifestyle
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noun
Anything forming or resembling such a line
Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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Synonyms: slash
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adjective satellite
having an oblique or slanted direction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping
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adjective satellite
connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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noun
a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: solidus, slash, virgule, stroke, separatrix
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Broader terms: punctuation, punctuation mark
noun
(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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: set
noun
an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: line
Narrower terms: main diagonal, principal diagonal, secondary diagonal
noun
a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bias
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Broader terms: straight line
noun
(geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: straight line
History
From Middle French diagonal, from Latin diagōnālis, from Ancient Greek διαγώνιος (diagṓnios, “from angle to angle”), from διά (diá, “across”) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle”).
Across languages
106 source translations are retained for this English entry.
