perpendicular
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In the end, some 8,000 small seismic events were induced along the targeted fault, but also, surprisingly, along other faults running perpendicular to the main one, sparking local magnitudes ranging from -5 to -0.14.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
Tévoédjrè stood beside an armored vehicle on the perpendicular street, positioned between the oncoming column and Talon’s residence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
“This isn’t just a missing person case,” said Travis Harrison, a producer at NewsNation, which has pulled together a hovel of satellites and folding chairs in the prime real estate perpendicular to Guthrie’s address.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026
By contrast, transverse interactions are a recently discovered class of forces that act perpendicular to that central axis.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2025
The text was written in columns perpendicular to the long axis of the scroll.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
She uses a measuring stick to set the plants an equal distance apart, and as the beds are connected, the effect is one of perfectly aligned diagonals and perpendiculars.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2010
Under those glorious perpendiculars . . . this gesticulating gigolo in gilt.
From Time Magazine Archive
And therefore the three perpendiculars, which are the bases of the equilaters, shall be equall.
From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William
It looked dark and hopeless, with its dots and dashes, its horizontals and perpendiculars, its curves and crosses.
From Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck by Optic, Oliver
The converse likewise is manifest: For the perpendiculars given do halfe them: And the halfes as before are equall.
From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William
Vocabulary lists containing perpendicular
Geometry - Introductory
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 2
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Geometry - Middle School
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