perpendicular
adjective
vertical; straight up and down; upright.
perpendicularity
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a word derived from
perpendicular.
Example Sentences
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Symmetry and perpendicularity reign, with fewer than five sculptures placed diagonally.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2014
Just below the exit of the pool these natural terraces all culminate in a jutting angle of the cliff, which protrudes, sharp and awful in its unbroken perpendicularity.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Congruence is extended in any space beyond parallel rects to all rects by two axioms depending on perpendicularity.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
"Two solemn facts, but they won't wash the dishes," rejoined Kat, balancing over the bannisters, in a way that threatened immediate perpendicularity, with a change of base from what was customary.
From Six Girls A Home Story by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
You have no longer a sense of perpendicularity.
From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Norman Duncan
