Coordinate Tetrads: Other than Cartesian?

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Is there any coordinate tetrad in spacetime except Cartesian basis ?
since tetrad basis should be orthogonal (( In Lorentzian description ))and the only orthogonal basis is Cartesian ( the metric is (+1,-1,-1,-1 ) but in any other coordinate basis like Spherical metric is ( +1,-1,-r,-rsino ) and they aren't coordiante tetrad .
 
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Dear Friends
Is there any coordinate tetrad in spacetime except Cartesian basis ?
since tetrad basis should be orthogonal (( In Lorentzian description ))and the only orthogonal basis is Cartesian ( the metric is (+1,-1,-1,-1 ) but in any other coordinate basis like Spherical metric is ( +1,-1,-r,-rsino ) and they aren't coordiante tetrad .

The tetrad refers to the coordinate basis vectors, rather than the coordinates. The 4 coordinate basis vectors for Spherical coordinates are all orthogonal to one another, as are the coordinate basis vectors for cylindrical coordinates. But, in cylindrical and spherical coordinates, some of the 3 spatial coordinate basis vectors vary with spatial location.
 
I know that but i mean are the only holonomic tetrad basis Cartesian basis ?
unit vector basis in spherical coordinate are tetrads but coordiante basis isn't .and the relations between tetrads and basis coordiante are :
e_{r}=∂_{r}
e_{\theta}=\frac{1}{r}∂_{\theta}
e_{\varphi}=\frac{1}{rsin\varphi}∂_{\varphi}
e_{0}=∂_{r}=\frac{∂}{∂t}
and we can see those unit vectors have non vanishing Lie's bracket (( so they are anholonomic or non coordiante basis ))
so i thought the cartecian basis are the only the coordinate tetrads (( or holonomic tetrads ))
 
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