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'Orthogonal' just means 'perpendicular'.

You can establish that if neither vector has a component in the direction of the

other one, or the sum of the squares of their magnitudes is equal to the square

of the magnitude of their sum.

If you have the algebraic equations for the vectors in space or on a graph, then

they're perpendicular if their slopes are negative reciprocals.

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