diagonal

Adjective

• having an oblique or slanted direction

• connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face
  • a diagonal line across the page
    

Noun

• a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

• (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry

• an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard
  • the bishop moves on the diagonals
    

• a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

• (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  aslant , aslope , slanted , slanting , sloped , sloping , solidus , slash , virgule , stroke , separatrix , bias