One place where this shows in a fairly technical way is in discussing instruction sets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_instruction_set https://en.wiki

One place where this shows in a fairly technical way is in discussing instruction sets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_instruction_set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_instruction_set "In computer engineering, an orthogonal instruction set is an instruction set architecture where all instruction types can use all addressing modes. It is "orthogonal" in the sense that the instruction type and the addressing mode vary independently. An orthogonal instruction set does not impose a limitation that requires a certain instruction to use a specific register[1] so there is little overlapping of instruction functionality.[2]" Its use here is more general, but I hope the specific example helps.