perpendicular
IPA: pɝpʌndˈɪkjʌɫɝ
noun
- (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
- A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
- (obsolete, slang) A meal eaten at a tavern bar while standing up.
adjective
- (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to something).
- Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.
- Independent of or irrelevant to each other; orthogonal.
- (architecture) Of a style of English Gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, marked by stiff and rectilinear lines, mostly vertical window-tracery, depressed or four-centre arch, fan-tracery vaulting, and panelled walls.
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Examples of "perpendicular" in Sentences
- It is perpendicular to the coronal and sagittal planes.
- The crystals lie nearly perpendicular to the enamel rod.
- The stylus is run perpendicular to the lay of the surface.
- The axis of the lens is normally perpendicular to the film.
- The planes of the bases are perpendicular to the fiber axis.
- The axis is 90 degrees perpendicular to the plane of the motion.
- The nulls are in the axis perpendicular to the plane of the loop.
- Work done in this way is often called perpendicular chiseling, Fig. 72.
- The drum axis is perpendicular to the grooves and the path of the boards.
- The perpendicular thin black line through the center is the conjugate axis.
- The mirror is oriented perpendicular to the optical axis of the lens groups.
- "Beach!" retorted Barnstable; "do you call a perpendicular rock of a hundred feet in height a beach!"
- Shouldn't she be resting instead of dashing to-and-fro, drying the raindrops that land in perpendicular plop-plop!
- White river; which rose, perhaps, from one to two hundred feet in perpendicular height, and sixty or eighty yards asunder.
- The only corkscrew she had was a solid wooden-handled one with the screw sticking out perpendicular from the center (like a letter “T”).
- Napping on the couch is not a long-term solution, but the couch does come with a built-in perpendicular, which the bed does not, so that's good.
- By holding these rules in different positions, the children readily became familiar with the meaning and practical application of the terms perpendicular, horizontal, and oblique.
- The Federal gun-boats have iron-plated sides placed in perpendicular bars on the timbers, and when in action no one appears on deck bu the signalmen, the vessels being steered from a shotproof pilot-house forwards.
- In fixing a barometer for observation, it is indispensable that it be hung in a perpendicular position, seeing that it is the _perpendicular distance_ between the surface of the mercury in the cistern and the top of the column which is the true height of the barometer.
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