vertical

Example Sentences

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This earthquake was triggered by a strike-slip fault, where two large sections of the Earth's crust move horizontally past each other along a vertical fracture.

From Science Daily

Thill: One beneficiary in software is going to be vertical applications.

From Barron's

By carefully adjusting the radius and depth of each cavity, they could control both the resonance wavelength and the vertical position of the optical mode.

From Science Daily

The wall is lined with thick, vertical grooves, described by Vargas as “almost like a lattice surface because the corrugation is so deep.”

From Los Angeles Times

But the museum was a defiantly freestanding building, whose vertical jumble of boxes is as essential to its identity as the continuous spiral of the Guggenheim.

From The Wall Street Journal