orthogonal to sth? - 翻譯

有個片語中文不知道該如何表達

First, the androgyny perspective regards an overall senses of same-gender
typicality as "orthogonal to" an overall sense of other-gender typicality.
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For reasons discussed by Egan and Perry(2001), it is unlikely that two
summary senses of same- and other-gender typicality are orthogonal dimensions;
it is likely that they function as opposite ends of a single continuum.


不曉得orthogonal to這個詞
中文該怎麼講?!


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