perpendicularity

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

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2014

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 Whitehead, Alfred North

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 Mitford, Bertram

The abyss is girt with a ragged wall of dark trachyte, which rises on the inside at various angles between 45° and perpendicularity.

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by Orton, James

Perfect perpendicularity implies lack of understanding, but gently arched at top, capacity for cold, tranquil, profound thought.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir