Diagonal

Quick meaning: Diagonal is an adjective meaning (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).

Meaning

(geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).

More Meanings

1. Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
2. Having a slanted or oblique direction.
3. (geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
4. Anything forming or resembling such a line, particularly:
5. 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.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• diagonals

Synonyms for diagonal

Depending on context, synonyms include aslant, aslope, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping.

Antonyms for diagonal

Common opposites include backslash.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include separatrix, virgule, oblique, slanting, slanted, aslant.

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