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
Everybody knows that an intramural churchyard has a tendency to enlarge itself—not in area, but in perpendicularity.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
You have no longer a sense of perpendicularity.
From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Norman Duncan
You will be able to ascertain the exact degree of perpendicularity in Addie’s case without an enormous waste of time or money.
From The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury by Asenath Carver Coolidge
The fish, when brought close up to the canoe, sometimes dashes beneath it, to the great peril of rod, reel, and leader, if not to the perpendicularity of the canoe itself.
From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various
