perpendicularity
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Symmetry and perpendicularity reign, with fewer than five sculptures placed diagonally.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2014
By these motions the muscles, which preserve the perpendicularity of the body, are alternately quiescent, and exerted; and are thus less liable to fatigue or exhaustion.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
This axiom evidently expresses the symmetry of perpendicularity, and is the essence of the famous pons asinorum expressed as an axiom.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
It was necessarily "low studded," being only five feet from floor to ceiling, which was rather trying to the perpendicularity of a six-footer.
From The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder by Oliver Optic
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
