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Symmetry and perpendicularity reign, with fewer than five sculptures placed diagonally.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2014

What can Li Hung Chang, that dragon-claw of the throne, that amber-souled prop of imperial perpendicularity be about, I wonder?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887 by Various

We shall find that this discovery of definite unique properties defining perpendicularity is of critical importance in the theory of congruence which is the topic for the next lecture.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

Aplomb, a-plom′, n. the perpendicular, perpendicularity: self-possession, coolness.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

In this way we have pointed out unique and definite properties in nature which correspond to perpendicularity.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North