Perpendicularity

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being perpendicular. uncountable, usually

    "In their spare moments the animals would walk round and round the half-finished mill, admiring the strength and perpendicularity of its walls and marvelling that they should ever have been able to build anything so imposing."

  2. 2
    the quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon) wordnet
  3. 3
    the relation of opposition between things at right angles wordnet

Synonyms

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aplomborthogonal oppositionorthogonalityorthogonality

Example

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"In their spare moments the animals would walk round and round the half-finished mill, admiring the strength and perpendicularity of its walls and marvelling that they should ever have been able to build anything so imposing."

Etymology

From perpendicular + -ity.

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