Perpendicular is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERPENDICULAR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a perpendicular line
• a straight line at an angle of 90° to a given line, plane, or surface
• perpendicular position or direction
• A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction.
• A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side.
• a straight line at right angles to another line
• a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
• a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth\'s center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point
• an extremely steep face
• a straight line at an angle of 90° to a given line, plane, or surface
ADJECTIVE:
• at right angles to a line or plane
• at an angle of 90° to a given line, plane, or surface or to the ground
• at an angle of 90° to the ground; vertical
• so steep as to be almost vertical
• denoting the latest stage of English Gothic church architecture, prevalent from the late 14th to mid 16th centuries and characterized by broad arches, elaborate fan vaulting, and large windows with vertical tracery
• Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth.
• At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc.
• intersecting at or forming right angles
• at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
• at an angle of 90° to a given line, plane, or surface or to the ground
• at an angle of 90° to the ground; vertical
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• standing at right angles to the plane of the horizon; exactly upright; being at right angles to a given line or plane

Words related to PERPENDICULAR

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Words that contain PERPENDICULAR

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How to use PERPENDICULAR in a sentence

• At this time the battle line formed almost a perpendicular from Noyon in France north to the Belgian coast, south of Ostend.
• A sulphurous spring was also discovered, bubbling out from the base of a perpendicular rock three hundred feet high, the waters of which were dark-blue and tasted like gunpowder.
• The valley terminated in a deep gorge, with perpendicular walls of rock on either side.
• Also, as he gained the perpendicular and as Jerry flew at his legs, he launched a kick with all his might that caught and lifted Jerry squarely under the middle.
• Accordingly toward night they withdrew to a rim rock, protected on three sides by high perpendicular walls.
• There seemed no way of climbing the perpendicular side of the vessel, yet it was quite clear that the old man could not get down unaided.
• Wyke is the mother church of Weymouth and is a fine Perpendicular structure in a magnificent position.
• There are still a number of old thatched cottages here and a Perpendicular church with a Norman door.
• Its appearance, however, is quite different, and it is Perpendicular in style.
• At the angles of the fortress it widens to two hundred feet, and sinks beneath the batteries in a sheer perpendicular of one hundred and thirty feet.
• They were laid so as to form a perfectly smooth perpendicular wall, the least height of which above the plain below is twenty feet.
• Also the perpendicular plane of the mountains to the west, in some subtle manner, was beginning to break.
• At Winchester, William of Wykeham cut the massive Norman into Perpendicular order, but at St.
• The constancy of the weather, even across two hundred thousand parayears of perpendicular time, never failed to impress him.
• She had abolished her Shape entirely and abandoned the Perpendicular, preferring a Droop which indicated that possibly she had been fashioned over a Barrel.
• Tie a strong thin cord about the roller in a line with each perpendicular row of rings, and pass each cord through its proper rings.
• Colman, the Blue-eyed, and a Round Tower leaning out of the perpendicular.
• At Ely, Westminster, Beverley, and many other places, the proportions of Norman or Early English work influenced those of the later Decorated and Perpendicular.
• This effigy also belongs to the Perpendicular period.
• It is 700 feet in the side of its base, and 500 in perpendicular height, and stands on eleven acres of ground.
• The precipice at this point is over three hundred feet in height, and in places is almost perpendicular.
• In one place there was a fringe of thick willows along the bank, and a little farther back a perpendicular bluff, while between the two was a strip of fine green grass.
• At the foot of the hill, on the opposite side of this river, the rocks were of great height, and almost perpendicular.
• The only deviation from the perpendicular was from the insertion of a speaking-trumpet under his left arm, at right angles with his body.
• Along this edge he drew his perpendicular north-and-south line in the upper left-hand corner.
• Inch by inch he worked his paws upward as the tree leaned more and more from the perpendicular.

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