perpendicularity
Example Sentences
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Symmetry and perpendicularity reign, with fewer than five sculptures placed diagonally.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2014
Any one but Professor Tartlet placed in this sort of unstable equilibrium would have tottered on his base, but the professor preserved an absolute perpendicularity.
From Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery by Jules Verne
Just below the exit of the pool these natural terraces all culminate in a jutting angle of the cliff, which protrudes, sharp and awful in its unbroken perpendicularity.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Aplomb, a-plom′, n. the perpendicular, perpendicularity: self-possession, coolness.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
To secure the perpendicularity of the shaft, it is necessary to leave a large mass or pillar of the seam untouched around the pit bottom.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
