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nouna Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaultingtype of:
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nouna 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
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"measure the perpendicular height"adjectiveat right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
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nounan extremely steep facetype of:
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nouna straight line at right angles to another linetype of:
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"the axes are perpendicular to each other"adjectiveintersecting at or forming right angles
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"the great perpendicular face of the cliff"adjectiveso steep as to be nearly veritcal
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- right having the axis perpendicular to the base
- altitude the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel)
- maxwell a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss
- quadrant the area enclosed by two perpendicular radii of a circle
- poppet a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat; commonly used in internal-combustion engines
- rectangular having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles
- nit a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
- oblique slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
- birefringence splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly
- paraboloid a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis