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diagonal

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1. diagonal - Noun

2. diagonal - Adjective

3. diagonal - Adjective Satellite

4. Diagonal - Proper noun

Meaning

Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.

A right line drawn from one angle to another not adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two parts.

A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel.

A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.

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the bishop moves on the diagonals Source: Internet

a diagonal line across the page Source: Internet

1) A diagonal line on a 1-bit display. 2) Grayscale anti-aliasing. 3) Identical to 1, but on a color monitor. 4) Rendered with direct control of each color subpixel. 5) Smaller version of 1-4. 6) 1 pixel lines without and with anti-aliasing. Source: Internet

A century before that, during the 15th century, the three colours were mentioned as the coastal signals for this area, with the 3 bands straight or diagonal, single or doubled. Source: Internet

A diagonal possesses a more-or-less warm (or cold) tonality, according to its inclination toward the horizontal or the vertical. Source: Internet

A cube can be inscribed in a dodecahedron so that each vertex of the cube is a vertex of the dodecahedron and each edge is a diagonal of one of the dodecahedron's faces; taking all such cubes gives rise to the regular compound of five cubes. Source: Internet

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