orthogonal
C1CEFR level
69/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
General adjective
Statistically independent or mutually unrelated; at right angles in a geometric sense.
The two factors are orthogonal, so varying one tells you nothing about the other.
Business adjective
Statistically or conceptually independent of another variable or factor, with no meaningful correlation between them.
The two growth levers proved orthogonal, so the team could pursue both without one undermining the other.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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