perpendicularity

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Symmetry and perpendicularity reign, with fewer than five sculptures placed diagonally.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2014

The abyss is girt with a ragged wall of dark trachyte, which rises on the inside at various angles between forty-five degrees and perpendicularity.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 by Various

The sense of perpendicularity, however, should constantly be cultivated.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William

You will be able to ascertain the exact degree of perpendicularity in Addie’s case without an enormous waste of time or money.

From The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury by Coolidge, Asenath Carver

What can Li Hung Chang, that dragon-claw of the throne, that amber-souled prop of imperial perpendicularity be about, I wonder?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887 by Various