• Victor@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Just to expand a little,

    ortho-, as a prefix, means:

    Right angle, perpendicular.

    As in orthogonal, or orthographic.

    Or sometimes just “straight”, or “corrective”(?), like in “orthodontist” or “orthopedic”, I suppose.