perpendicular

• Challenging the notion of storage as a perpendicular or parallel arrangement of cubes or shelves, Creosa's Prove storage cubes take off at an angle and fly away totally disconnected from each other .... —  Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us
• From m drop perpendicular, and then with centre m and radius mn describe arc, and where it cuts that perpendicular is the required point Pˇ_. —  The Theory and Practice of Perspective
• There is, however, what may be described as a perpendicular division also, and this is somewhat more difficult to comprehend, especially as great reserve is always maintained by occultists as to some of the facts which would be involved in a fuller explanation of it. —  The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena
• It will readily be noticed how out of the perpendicular are the piers of this ambulatory as one approaches the east end of the church. —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
• If the two seem almost combined in the church of Edington, in Wiltshire, the foundation dedicated in 1361 for his native village by Edward's chancellor, Bishop Edington of Winchester, the triumph of the perpendicular is assured in the new choir which Archbishop Thoresby began for York Minster, and in the reconstruction of the Norman cathedral of Winchester begun by Bishop Edington, and completed when his greater successor, William of Wykeham, carried out in a more drastic way the device already adopted at Gloucester of recasing the ancient structure so as to suit modern tastes. —  The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)

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