perpendicular English

Meaning perpendicular meaning

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perpendicular Adjective

— Perpendicular means "at a ninety degree angle to".

perpendicular

— noun a straight line at right angles to another line

— noun a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting

— noun an extremely steep face

— adjective extremely steep the great perpendicular face of the cliff

— adjective intersecting at or forming right angles the axes are perpendicular to each other

— adjective (= vertical) at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line a vertical camera angle the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab measure the perpendicular height

— noun (= plumb line) a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point

Synonyms perpendicular synonyms

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perpendicular English » English

vertical

upright

orthogonal

normal

sheer

erect

plumb

perpendicular style

English-Gothic architecture

English-Gothic

steep

plumb line

bluff

verticality

vertical plumb

vertical line

vert

up-and-down

ultra

stringent

straightforward

straight

stern

stark

stand erect

squareness

square

sharp

rise perpendicularly

rectitude

rectangular

precipitous

pointingrule

plumbness

plumb-line

perpendicularity

peremptory

pendulum

parallel

orthorhombic

orthometric

orthogonality

orthogonal intersection

on

longitudinal

intransigent

heightwise

droop line

downward-sloping

cross-cut

Topics perpendicular topics

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States Quality Shape Horizontal

Vertical

• What words describe something in a vertical position?
  vertical upright up-and-down plumb erect upraised perpendicular at right angles square standing true straight straight up bolt upright

Examples perpendicular examples

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Simple sentences

Let H be the base of the perpendicular drawn from point A to the line BC.

Pressure acts perpendicular to the solid surface of an object.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Movie subtitles

If it stays perpendicular, it's a culex larva: and harmless.

See how it rests perpendicular to the wall.

You will note that our chantry displays the crocketed and finialed ogee which marks it as very early Perpendicular.

The Earth's movement around its axis. The movement of the axis around the planetary system, the perpendicular to the ecliptic, and the question to which extent the ongoing constants can be improved.

Still, I prefer it to Gothic perpendicular.

The perpendicular and then the transversal and that which is perpendicular to them both the frontal.

Lieutenant Gruber is a very long way from the perpendicular.

What's a perpendicular bisector?

A perpendicular in mid-segment.

Approaching the perpendicular.

It's about 70 kilometers above us on a roughly perpendicular course.

Don't you like having everything on your desk perpendicular?

As soon as we're perpendicular to Earth, I'll start the engines again.

In the direction perpendicular to the disc the size was much smaller, of the order of 7,000 light years.

Even the ossified, petrified, horizontal, perpendicular Presbyterians are against me!

Now, every point in our space is part of a perpendicular line in the. fourth dimension.

So. although all the lines forming the fourth dimension are perpendicular to every point in the third, they're not necessarily parallel to us.

I estimate the signal they're emitting is coming from those perpendicular dwellings just beyond this space.

In rooms 6, 8 and 13, there're perpendicular cracks.

You're gonna take your crescent wrench and turn the valve a quarter turn, so that the wrench is perpendicular to your pipe.

Else how can he keep up His tail perpendicular Or spread out his whiskers Or cherish his pride?

Now, if I take into account the seventh sister, and I give the seventh sister a lunar, well, then that lunar, it will run perpendicular to Scorpius, creating against the dawn horizon a straight line that would run directly. Directly toward. Dryland!

From below the gas attack, run in a direction perpendicular to the wind.

I think I'm just about, yeah, pretty damn perpendicular.

Okay,okay,all right,all right,all right. the ranch. the ranch was in the center of a box-- sheep road on one side,kokosing road perpendicular.

They are either parallel or perpendicular.

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Antonio is stretched out on a rock with arms perpendicular, the Jew Shylock leaning over his breast with his knife drawn.