What does ‘orthogonal’ mean in a statistics context?

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I have tried many times to understand this and thus far failed every time. What does it mean to say that data is orthogonal? Can you provide an example of data that would be orthogonal versus data that would not be orthogonal?

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Independent, unrelated.

For example, whether someone likes cats or dogs more is (probably, didn’t check) orthogonal to their body weight, but weight is correlated with overall health status.

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