I feel like he is using the work Orthogonal incorrectly, I once had to describe a complex relationship where there was a hierarchy of objects however instead of

I feel like he is using the work Orthogonal incorrectly, I once had to describe a complex relationship where there was a hierarchy of objects however instead of being a strictly up down relationship there was an up, down and right relationship. From the little chemistry I've learned I was familiar with phenol and its bonds or para, ortho, and meta. I defined the up object as para, the right object as ortho and the descending object as meta.