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Meanings of perpendicularity in английском

русский
перпендикулярность
португальский
perpendicular
испанский
perpendicular
каталонский
perpendiculars
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Property of being perpendicular (perpendicularity) is the relationship between two lines which meet at a right angle (90 degrees).

        Related terms
        перпендикулярность
        каталонский
        ortogonal
        испанский
        ortogonalidad

        The relation of opposition between things at right angles.

              ortogonal
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              Examples for "perpendicular"
              Examples for "perpendicular"
              1
              You use the perpendicular pronoun too much and in the wrong places.
              Masters of Space
              2
              The typical mound is one which covers the perpendicular burrow in Fig.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884
              3
              The wall tapers to the top and is perpendicular towards the reservoir.
              Chatterbox, 1906
              4
              The almost perpendicular fall of the heavy projectiles produced the desired effect.
              Representative Men: Seven Lectures
              5
              The upper precipice consisted of cliffs about 140 feet in perpendicular height.
              Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...
              Usage of perpendicularity in английском
              1
              Your argument about the perpendicularity of the dike strikes me as good.
              More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 / A Record of His Work...
              2
              And she balanced her little head with the perpendicularity of a plumb-line.
              After the Storm
              3
              I have not been able to discover why, or how, this perpendicularity exists.
              Arcanum Unbounded
              4
              Septimus took off his cap and brought his hair to its normal perpendicularity.
              Septimus
              5
              Without getting overly Freudian, we tourists, it seems, have a fixation with perpendicularity.
              The Irish Times
              6
              And one of them, the first planet, has a perpendicularity.
              Arcanum Unbounded
              7
              His square-framed perpendicularity showed more fully now than in the crowd and bustle of the market-house.
              Far from the Madding Crowd
              8
              I spotted this fact in the perpendicularity of the sun's rays, which were no longer refracted.
              Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
              9
              Truly it was the region of perpendicularity!
              Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
              10
              It was near noon; I knew by the perpendicularity of the sun's rays, which were no longer refracted.
              Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
              11
              Even an old sailor may find it impossible to maintain his perpendicularity when the boat is unexpectedly moved.
              Desk and Debit; or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk
              12
              You cannot ride the perpendicularity across.
              Arcanum Unbounded
              13
              The area around the perpendicularity is extremely dangerous, and the few expeditions sent there from Silverlight have not returned.
              Arcanum Unbounded
              14
              We took too many tests proving the absolute perpendicularity of the Columbiad, to entertain the slightest doubt on that subject.
              All Around the Moon
              15
              Worse yet, it led to a featureless face which strove for and achieved perpendicularity for a deadly high distance: like miles.
              The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
              16
              If a world doesn't have a perpendicularity, then it can be studied from the Cognitive Realm, but cannot truly be visited.
              Arcanum Unbounded
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