diagonal

  • (s) connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face
    • a diagonal line across the page
  • (s) having an oblique or slanted direction aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping,

Nouns

  • (n) (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
  • (n) a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric bias,
  • (n) an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard
    • the bishop moves on the diagonals
  • (n) (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
  • (n) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information separatrix, virgule, solidus, slash, stroke,

Synonyms

aslant aslope slanted slanting sloped sloping bias separatrix virgule solidus slash stroke

Words of close approximity

diagonalisation diagonalise diagonalizable diagonalization diagonalize diagonally diagonal matrix