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semiorthogonal.

Having the property that every subcategory is in the set of orthogonal subcategories of every higher order subcategory.

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Meaning & usage

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  1. Having the property that every subcategory is in the set of orthogonal subcategories of every higher order subcategory.

    not-comparable
  2. Either columnwise orthogonal (having the property that M'M is an identity matrix) or rowwise orthogonal (having the property that MM' is an identity matrix).

    not-comparable
  3. Orthogonal to the corresponding approximation space.

    not-comparable
Where this word comes from

From semi- + orthogonal.

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