Synonyms for perpendicularity

Grammar : Noun

Spell : pur-puhn-dik-yuh-ler

Phonetic Transcription : ˌpɜr pənˈdɪk yə lər

Définition of perpendicularity

Origin : late 15c., from adverb (late 14c.), from Old French perpendiculer, from Latin perpendicularis "vertical, as a plumb line," from perpendiculum "plumb line," from perpendere "balance carefully," from per- "thoroughly" (see per) + pendere "to weigh, to hang" (see pendant). As a noun from 1570s. Related: Perpendicularly; perpendicularity.

As in uprightness : noun dignity

Example sentences :

This perpendicularity we demand of all the figures in this picture of life.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sense of perpendicularity, however, should constantly be cultivated.
Extract from : « Handwork in Wood » by William Noyes

Your argument about the perpendicularity of the dike strikes me as good.
Extract from : « More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II » by Charles Darwin

Parallell-equality is derived from perpendicularity, and is of neere affinity to it.
Extract from : « The Way To Geometry » by Peter Ramus

Perpendicularity was in the former attributed to lines considered in a surface.
Extract from : « The Way To Geometry » by Peter Ramus

There is a curious sense of perpendicularity about these mountain rhapsodies.
Extract from : « Fir-Flower Tablets » by Various

In the conscious reasoning of both, however, is the condition of perpendicularity.
Extract from : « The Mystery of Space » by Robert T. Browne

This is the fundamental property which forms the definition of perpendicularity.
Extract from : « The Concept of Nature » by Alfred North Whitehead

We determine our perpendicularity by the apparent motions of objects.
Extract from : « Zoonomia, Vol. I » by Erasmus Darwin

Here it is necessary, that we should be habituated to both these modes of motion in order to preserve our perpendicularity.
Extract from : « Zoonomia, Vol. I » by Erasmus Darwin

Antonyms for perpendicularity

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