perpendicularity

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

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2014

Everybody knows that an intramural churchyard has a tendency to enlarge itself—not in area, but in perpendicularity.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

You have no longer a sense of perpendicularity.

From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman

But now they had above them the ten feet of sheer perpendicularity down which Dan had indiscreetly jumped, following Penn's lead.

From Cudjo's Cave by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

We shall find that this discovery of definite unique properties defining perpendicularity is of critical importance in the theory of congruence which is the topic for the next lecture.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North