perpendicular
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His awkward angle, coming from beyond the perpendicular, with the ability to move the ball away from right-handers makes him very challenging for a batter to line up.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
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
“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
The front door is easily visible from the road—but likely out of eye or camera sight from even the neighbors up the hill on perpendicular Cerrada Chica.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Right, ’cause being perpendicular, it didn’t get swept away in the storm.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
Masses of sloping talus reach more than half-way up; above them the cliffs are perpendicular; it is in cavities in these perpendiculars that the cliff-dwellings hide.
From The Book of the National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard
Buildings shoot rigid perpendiculars latticed with window-gaps into the slate sky.
From A Pushcart at the Curb by John Dos Passos
The plumb line is perpendicular to the geoid, and the components of angle between the perpendiculars to geoid and reference ellipsoid are deflections of the vertical.
From Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Papers 34-44 On Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1966 by Victor Fritz Lenzen
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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