Diagonal synonyms

dī-ăg'ə-nəl

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horizontal-line (related)
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catercorner
Angled at a slant
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stroke
A single uninterrupted movement, especially when repeated or in a back-and-forth motion:
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ellipse (related)
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slanting
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oblique (related)
The definition of oblique is slanted or tilted direction. It also refers to something that is misleading or not straight to the point.
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angled
Set at an angle
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slanted
Angled at a slant
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biased
Angled at a slant
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right-angled (related)
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centerline (related)
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right-angle (related)
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black-line (related)
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askew
(Figuratively) Untoward, unfavourable.
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rectangle (related)
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beveled
Having a bevel, especially at an edge
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bias
Slanting; diagonal
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catercornered
Angled at a slant
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transversal
Transverse.
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aslant
At a slant; obliquely.
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aslope
At a slope or slant.
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sloped
That has or have a slope.
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sloping
Having a slope.
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solidus
(Chemistry, physics) a line, in a phase diagram, below which a given substance is a stable solid and above which solid and liquid are in equilibrium
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slash
A cut made by or as by such a stroke; gash; slit
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virgule
A short diagonal line (/) used between two words to show either is applicable (and/or), in dates or fractions (3/8), to express “per” (feet/second), etc.; slash
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separatrix
(Mathematics, archaic) The decimal point.
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horizontal (related)
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vertical (related)
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concave (related)
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transverse (related)
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diagonally (related)
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inclining
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crosswise
Crossing:
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straight (related)
Extending continuously in the same direction without curving:
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triangular (related)
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  • It hadn't come from the sky but from one of the buildings across the street, diagonal to her.

  • Two blocks away, the patrol car struck a van backing out from its diagonal parking space in front of the toy store.

  • The faces of the cube are striated parallel to one diagonal, and alternate corners are sometimes replaced by faces of a tetrahedron.

  • Thus a bar of glass of sufficient thickness, placed in the diagonal position between a crossed polarizer and analyser and bent in a plane perpendicular to that of vision, exhibits two sets of coloured bands separated by a neutral line, the double refraction being positive on the dilated and negative on the compressed side.

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