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Perpendicularity

noun

The relation of opposition between things at right angles. Synonyms: orthogonal opposition, orthogonality.

The quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon).

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"Perpendicularity" Quotes from Famous Books

... think so," replied Barbicane. "The perpendicularity of the gun was exact, its direction to the zenith of the spot incontestible; and the moon passing to the zenith of the spot, we ought to reach it at the full. There is another reason, ...

— Jules Verne's Classic Books • Jules Verne

... magnet than the earth. The plate so often referred to (85.) was therefore fixed so as to rotate in a horizontal plane. The magnetic curves of the earth (114. note), i.e. the dip, passes through this plane at angles of about 70 deg., which it was expected would be an approximation to perpendicularity, quite enough to allow of magneto-electric induction sufficiently powerful to ...

— Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 • Michael Faraday

... hostile attitude at once towards such individuals; so that he will enter upon his work rather with a desire to seek a collision with them, or at least with secret feelings of defiance towards them,—feelings which will lead to that kind of unbending perpendicularity in his demeanour towards them which will almost inevitably lead to a collision. Now this is wrong. There is indeed a point where firm resistance to unreasonable demands becomes a duty. But as a general principle it is most unquestionably ...

— The Teacher - Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and - Government of the Young • Jacob Abbott

Words linked to "Perpendicularity" : oblongness, rectangularity, opposition, perpendicular, orthogonality