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diagonal
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)
- (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
- Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
- Having a slanted or oblique direction.
- 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)
- (geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
- Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly:
- (geometry) A line or plane at an oblique angle to another.
- (fashion) A line or cut across a fabric at an oblique angle to its sides.
- (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.
- 1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:
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)
- diagonal
Derived terms
- diagonalment
Noun
diagonal f (plural diagonals)
- diagonal
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dia?ona?l/, [d?ia??o?næ??l]
Adjective
diagonal
- diagonal
Inflection
Noun
diagonal c (singular definite diagonalen, plural indefinite diagonaler)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- diagonal
Declension
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin diag?n?lis.
Adjective
diagonal m or f (plural diagonais, comparable)
- (geometry) diagonal (joining two nonadjacent vertices)
- diagonal (having a slanted or oblique direction)
Derived terms
- diagonalmente
Noun
diagonal f (plural diagonais)
- diagonal (something arranged diagonally or obliquely)
- (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)
- 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)
- diagonal
Derived terms
- diagonalmente
- matriz diagonal
Noun
diagonal f (plural diagonales)
- 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)
- diagonal
Declension
Derived terms
- diagonalt
Noun
diagonal c
- diagonal
Declension
Derived terms
- diagonala
diagonal From the web:
- what diagonals bisect each other
- what diagonals are perpendicular
- what diagonals are congruent
- what diagonal means
- what diagonal do you post on
- what diagonal relationship
- what diagonal line
- what diagonal communication
circumference
English
Etymology
From Latin circumferentia, from circum (“around”) + fer? (“I carry”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: sûrk?m'fr?ns, IPA(key): /s???k?m.f??ns/
- (US) enPR: sûrk?m'fr?ns, IPA(key): /s???k?m.f??ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns
Noun
circumference (plural circumferences)
- (geometry) The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure
- (geometry) The length of such a line
- (obsolete) The surface of a round or spherical object
- (graph theory) The length of the longest cycle of a graph
Synonyms
- (geometry): perimeter, umstroke
- (distance measured around any object): girth
- (distance measured around a race track): lap
Related terms
- diameter
- radius
- perimeter
Translations
Verb
circumference (third-person singular simple present circumferences, present participle circumferencing, simple past and past participle circumferenced)
- (obsolete, transitive) To include in a circular space; to bound.
circumference From the web:
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- what circumference of a circle
- what circumference should my thighs be
- what circumference of the earth
- what circumference is considered wide calf
- what circumference is a 7 3/4 hat
- what circumference are wide calf boots
- what circumference of the ball in centimeters
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