perpendicular
adjEtymology
Derived from Middle French perpendiculaire, from Old French perpendiculer, from Latin perpendiculum (“plumb line”).
- derived from perpendiculer
- derived from perpendiculaire
Definitions
At or forming a right angle (to something).
- In most houses, the walls are perpendicular to the floor.
Exactly upright
Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.
Independent of or irrelevant to each other
Independent of or irrelevant to each other; orthogonal.
- Hey, I'm not unsabotaging anything! This is completely perpendicular sabotage!
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A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
A meal eaten at a tavern bar while standing up.
Of a style of English Gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,…
Of a style of English Gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, marked by stiff and rectilinear lines, mostly vertical window-tracery, depressed or four-centre arch, fan-tracery vaulting, and panelled walls.
The neighborhood
- neighbor⟂
Derived
nonperpendicular, perpendicular axis theorem, perpendicular bisector, perpendicular distance, perpendicularity, perpendicularly, perpendicular magnetic recording, perpendicularness, perpendicular pronoun, perpendicular recording, perpendicular universe, quasiperpendicular, slantendicular, subperpendicular
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at perpendicular. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at perpendicular. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at perpendicular
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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