perpendicularity

• Some will pin their faith even to the crossing of a T, “the perpendicularity, my lord,” of a down-stroke, or the “obliquity” of an upstroke. —  The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
• For geometric vectors, orthogonality and perpendicularity may be considered the same thing but this definition does not hold for complex vectors or functions. —  Everything2 New Writeups
• Then she threw us each a pillow, indicating that we, too, should lie down and take it easy, but we preferred our perpendicularity, and sat upright on the edge of her couch, this being the only article of furniture in the room As the old lady could not speak Spanish, she leered at us pleasantly from where she lay, occasionally muttering something in her native tongue, that might have been a tribute to our charms of mind or person, but which sounded more like an incantation. —  A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route
• The sense of perpendicularity, however, should constantly be cultivated. —  Handwork in Wood
• M. Le Prevost bade me remark that the walls had much swerved from their original perpendicularity,--and that there was much irregularity in the laying of the bricks among the stones. —  A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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