Definition: (no definition here, yet, but you can help.)
Note: lists which share members, but are informationally independent. The lists are interweaved through items. For instance, we may keep people on three orthogonal lists by hair color, gender, and country of residence.
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Entry modified 17 December 2004.
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Cite this as:
"orthogonal lists", in
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed.,
U.S. National Institute of
Standards and Technology. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY)
Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/orthognllsts.html
