Meaning Of The Word Diagonal

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What's The Definition Of Diagonal?

diagonal
A diagonal line or movement goes in a sloping direction, for example, from one corner of a square across to the opposite corner.
countable noun: A diagonal is a line that goes in a sloping direction.

diagonal in American English
extending between the vertices of any two nonadjacent angles in a polygonal figure or between any two vertices not in the same face in a polyhedral figure; extending slantingly between opposite corners
adjective: connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, as a straight line
noun: a diagonal line or plane

diagonal in British English
adjective: connecting any two vertices that in a polygon are not adjacent and in a polyhedron are not in the same face
noun: a diagonal line or plane

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