diagonal

From Middle French diagonal, from Latin diagōnālis, from Ancient Greek διαγώνιος (diagṓnios, “from angle to angle”), from διά (diá, “across”) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle”).

• IPA^(key): /daɪˈæɡənəl/, /daɪˈæɡnəl/

diagonal (not comparable)

1. (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
2. Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
3. Having a slanted or oblique direction.
   • 2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC‎:

     The visitors' undoing was caused by a diagonal ball from the right which was nodded into the six-yard area by Ian Evatt and finished off by Campbell.

4. 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.

• (having a slanted or oblique direction): aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping

• diagonally
• diagonalization
• diagonal argument

diagonal (plural diagonals)

1. (geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
2. Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly:
   1. (geometry) A line or plane at an oblique angle to another.
   2. (fashion) A line or cut across a fabric at an oblique angle to its sides.
   3. (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.

• (oblique line or cut across a fabric): bias
• (oblique punctuation mark): See slash

• (oblique punctuation mark): See backslash

• diagonal mark

• ganoidal, gonadial

From Latin diagōnālis, from Ancient Greek διαγώνιος (diagṓnios, “from angle to angle”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /di.ə.ɡoˈnal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /di.ə.ɡuˈnal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /di.a.ɡoˈnal/

diagonal (masculine and feminine plural diagonals)

1. diagonal

• diagonalment

diagonal f (plural diagonals)

1. diagonal

• IPA^(key): /diaɡonaːl/, [d̥iaɡ̊oˈnæːˀl]

diagonal

1. diagonal

diagonal c (singular definite diagonalen, plural indefinite diagonaler)

1. diagonal

• “diagonal” in Den Danske Ordbog

diagonal (feminine singular diagonale, masculine plural diagonaux, feminine plural diagonales)

1. diagonal, transverse, oblique

diagonal m or f (plural diagonais)

1. diagonal

From Latin diagōnālis, from Ancient Greek διαγώνιος (diagṓnios, “from angle to angle”).

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• Rhymes: -aːl

diagonal (not comparable)

1. diagonal

diagonal m or f (plural diagonais, comparable)

1. (geometry) diagonal (joining two nonadjacent vertices)
2. diagonal (having a slanted or oblique direction)

diagonal f (plural diagonais)

1. diagonal (something arranged diagonally or obliquely)
2. (geometry) diagonal (diagonal line or plane)

From Latin diagōnālis, from Ancient Greek διαγώνιος (diagṓnios, “from angle to angle”).

diagonal (plural diagonales)

1. diagonal

• diagonalmente
• matriz diagonal

diagonal f (plural diagonales)

1. diagonal

• diagonal principal

From Latin diagōnālis, from Ancient Greek διαγώνιος (diagṓnios, “from angle to angle”).

diagonal (not comparable)

1. diagonal

• diagonalt

diagonal c

1. diagonal

• diagonala