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perpendicular noun
Meaning : A straight line at right angles to another line.
Meaning : A Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England. Characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting.
Synonyms : english-gothic, english-gothic architecture, perpendicular style
Meaning : 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 : plumb line
Meaning : An extremely steep face.
perpendicular adjective
Meaning : Intersecting at or forming right angles.
Example :
The axes are perpendicular to each other.
Slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled.
The oblique rays of the winter sun.Acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles.
The axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base.
oblique
Being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting.
Parallel lines never converge.Concentric circles are parallel.
Dancers in two parallel rows.
parallel
Meaning : At right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line.
Example :
A vertical camera angle.
The monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab.
Measure the perpendicular height.
Synonyms : vertical
Meaning : So steep as to be nearly veritcal.
Example :
The great perpendicular face of the cliff.
