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The authors introduce and study two binary relations between elements of a Banach space using the notions of \(L\)-summand and \(M\)-summand. A pair \((x,y)\) of elements in the complex Banach space \(E\) is said to be \(L\)-orthogonal, denoted by \(x\diamondsuit y\), if \(\|x\pm y\|=\|x\|+\|y\|\), and is said to be \(M\)-orthogonal, denoted by \(x\square y\), if \(\|x\pm y\|=\max\{\|x\|,\|y\|\}\). These two relations are extended to the set of faces of the unit balls in \(E\) and in its dual space \(E*\), and it is shown that, in this situation, there is a certain duality between these relations. In particular, the results are applied to the case in which \(E\) is the predual of a \(JBW^*\)-triple \(A\). In this case, there exists a further orthogonality relation \(\bot\) on \(A\) which is a Jordan--theoretic nature. The relationship between the three relations \(\diamondsuit\), \(\square\) and \(\bot\) is then also investigated, and it is shown that the algebraic relation \(\bot\) is very closely related to the dual geometric relations \(\diamondsuit\) and \(\square\).