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Verticality

noun
1.
Position at right angles to the horizon.  Synonyms: erectness, uprightness, verticalness.






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"Verticality" Quotes from Famous Books



... what looked like high towers standing along the margin of the stream. I say they looked like towers, but I should rather have said they symbolized them; for they had no specific shape, round or square, nor any definite substance or dimensions. They suggested rather, if I may say so, the idea of verticality; and otherwise were as blank and void of form or colour as everything else in this strange land. I made my way towards them along the bank; and when I had come close under the first, I saw that there was a door in it, and written ...
— The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue • G. Lowes Dickinson

... a distinctive difference, namely: that, of all the rivers running in the fissures of the causses, the Tarn is the only one whose water does not penetrate to the beds of marl beneath the lias; and this is said to partly explain the great height and verticality of the cliffs, for when the water reaches the marl it saps the foundations of the rocks, and these, subsiding, send their dislocated masses rolling to the bottom of ...
— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker



Words linked to "Verticality" :   position, spatial relation, uprightness, vertical, erectness, verticalness



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