Orthogonal in a sentence as an adjective

Find a junior-level job in a field that's orthogonal to what you really want.

Transporting and backing-up files are orthogonal to the data that is in the files.

But the vicious response probably comes from a concern that is completely orthogonal to how good you are:Humility.

* Treating operations on registers as "values" makes the instruction set very orthogonal.

Because I'm a nerd, I'm compelled to make an orthogonal point:Life expectancy is not entirely medical and is not a particularly good way to compare countries.

It isn't that you suddenly see your life in a whole new light, it's that you regard various mundane things with a new, orthogonal parameter: is this situation more likely to result in harm to me?Like all things, eventually you become inured and looking at a situation from a security perspective becomes a routine thought passing through your head along with "****, I forgot to pay the gas bill.

Orthogonal definitions

adjective

not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point"

See also: extraneous immaterial impertinent

adjective

statistically unrelated

adjective

having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"

See also: rectangular