On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Diagonal. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as line or slash and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Diagonal in a sentence
Related words
Diagonal meaning
- Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
- Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
- Having a slanted or oblique direction.
Synonyms of Diagonal
Diagonal vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Diagonal
- The main meaning on this page is: Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron). | Having slanted or oblique lines or markings. | Having a slanted or oblique direction.
- Useful related words include: straight line, line, slash, solidus.
- Possible Dutch translations are: diagonaal.
- In the example corpus, diagonal often appears in combinations such as: the diagonal, diagonal argument, and diagonal.
Context around Diagonal
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 12 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Diagonal
- In this selection, "diagonal" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lashing, main, actual, line, ball and swipe stand out and add context to how "diagonal" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 3 diagonal line is and 2 4 diagonal is 13. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "diagonal" sits close to words such as alyssa, antibiotic and apostles, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with diagonal
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Make diagonal cuts on sides of fish. (7 words)
It was a beautiful diagonal ball, which Gibbs-White watched drop onto his foot. (14 words)
A diagonal ball is pinged out to the Leeds right by Wober but immediately repelled by Forest. (17 words)
Directly from the kick off the ball was passed back to Fraser Marsh who hit long diagonal ball for livewire winger Luke Hanlon to get in behind the Tigers defence and classily chipped the keeper to restore parity. (38 words)
Since the kth leading principal minor of a triangular matrix is the product of its diagonal elements up to row k, Sylvester's criterion is equivalent to checking whether its diagonal elements are all positive. (35 words)
MacKenzie confirmed that in January 2021 he drew a diagonal line on his cell phone from Alaska, through Alberta and Saskatchewan, through the Dakotas, down to Texas and across to Florida and named it Diagolon. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
By default, three actions are recognized: a horizontal swipe to the center, a diagonal swipe up, and a diagonal swipe down.
Because operations like matrix multiplication, matrix inversion, and determinant calculation are simple on diagonal matrices, computations involving matrices are much simpler if we can bring the matrix to a diagonal form.
Calculating a row or diagonal by itself There are simple algorithms to compute all the elements in a row or diagonal without computing other elements or factorials.
Diagonal lashing Diagonal lashing is a type of lashing used to bind spars or poles together, to prevent racking.
For a diagonal matrix, this is true only if each element of the main diagonal—that is, every eigenvalue of M—is positive.
Since the kth leading principal minor of a triangular matrix is the product of its diagonal elements up to row k, Sylvester's criterion is equivalent to checking whether its diagonal elements are all positive.
The reflection about the 1,3−diagonal line is (24) and reflection about the 2,4−diagonal is (13).
With the introduction of flat panel technology, the diagonal measurement became the actual diagonal of the visible display.
A diagonal ball is pinged out to the Leeds right by Wober but immediately repelled by Forest.
Antonacci skated into the zone down the left wing side and fired a diagonal pass to Freel in the right faceoff circle.
Any stock or exchange-traded fund ("ETF") whose present risk exposure exceeds its reward prospect will be above the dotted diagonal line.
Directly from the kick off the ball was passed back to Fraser Marsh who hit long diagonal ball for livewire winger Luke Hanlon to get in behind the Tigers defence and classily chipped the keeper to restore parity.
For a narrow and steeply tapered bag, it’s easy to move in thanks to an ingenious diagonal baffling construction and stretch stitching.
If I decide to take an airplane from Korea to the UK, then my movement will be drawn as a diagonal line on the graph since I have moved in both space and time.
It was a beautiful diagonal ball, which Gibbs-White watched drop onto his foot.
MacKenzie confirmed that in January 2021 he drew a diagonal line on his cell phone from Alaska, through Alberta and Saskatchewan, through the Dakotas, down to Texas and across to Florida and named it Diagolon.
Make diagonal cuts on sides of fish.
Once you find your way back onto Diagonal Highway, continue past the Reservoir gates for Lap 2, it’s one more loop of the above rollers and fast descents.
On March 10, Piqué hung a huge banner on Barcelona’s famed Avenida Diagonal street throwing shade at mainstream soccer.
Players only need to do a forward diagonal down and press both punches on the stick or R2 on pad.
Common combinations with diagonal
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the diagonal 41×
- diagonal argument 14×
- and diagonal 13×
- diagonal line 10×
- diagonal lines 9×
- diagonal ball 8×
- diagonal pass 8×
- to diagonal 7×
- or diagonal 7×
- diagonal of 7×