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perpendicularly

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per·pen·dic·u·lar  (pûrpn-dky-lr)
adj.
1. Mathematics Intersecting at or forming right angles.
2. Being at right angles to the horizontal; vertical. See Synonyms at vertical.
3. often Perpendicular Of or relating to a style of English Gothic architecture of the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by emphasis of the vertical element.
adv.
In a perpendicular position.
n.
1. Mathematics A line or plane perpendicular to a given line or plane.
2. A perpendicular position.
3. A device, such as a plumb line, used in marking the vertical from a given point.
4. A vertical or nearly vertical line or plane.

[Middle English perpendiculer, from Old French, from Latin perpendiculris, from perpendiculum, plumb line, from perpendere, to weigh carefully : per-, per- + pendere, to weigh; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]

perpen·dicu·lari·ty (-lr-t) n.
perpen·dicu·lar·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.perpendicularly - straight up or down without a break
2.perpendicularly - in a perpendicular manner; "this red line runs perpendicularly to the green line"
Translations
perpendicularly
advsenkrecht
perpendicularly [ˌpɜːpnˈdɪkjʊləlɪ] advperpendicolarmente
perpendicularly [ˌpɜːpnˈdɪkjʊləlɪ] advperpendicolarmente


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where, when seamen fall overboard, they are sometimes found, months afterwards, perpendicularly frozen into the hearts of fields of ice, as a fly is found glued in amber.
Hence the importance of the advice to try the experiment upon some point of that part of the globe, in order that the projectile might be discharged perpendicularly, and so the soonest escape the action of gravitation.
Second, that the gun should be a Columbiad cast in iron, 900 feet long, and run perpendicularly into the earth.
 
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