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
In this way we have pointed out unique and definite properties in nature which correspond to perpendicularity.
From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Alfred North Whitehead
Phillida alighted from the car in the neighborhood of the Graydon, whose mountainous dimensions deflected the March wind into sudden and disagreeable backsets and whirling eddies that threatened the perpendicularity of foot-passengers.
From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Edward Eggleston
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
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
