perpendicularity
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Symmetry and perpendicularity reign, with fewer than five sculptures placed diagonally.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2014
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
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
Aplomb, a-plom′, n. the perpendicular, perpendicularity: self-possession, coolness.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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
