How to use perpendicular in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word perpendicular? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples A series of transverse anticlines and synclines are observed that have axes orientated NE-SW, approximately perpendicular to the fault zone. Some New Jersey communities built rock walls, called groins, perpendicular to the beach. The 30 to 40 miles per hour wind drove perpendicular across my path making it impossible to stay on the road even if I could see it. In quartersawing, lumber is produced by first quartering the log and then sawing perpendicular to the growth rings. Jets of matter are propelled out from the center perpendicular to the plane of the accretion disc. The ejected material is channeled into narrow jets perpendicular to the disk, while material from the disk falls onto the protostar. There's enough loft on a wedge when the shaft sits perpendicular to the ground. If a perpendicular measurement is impossible, the observer records radial distance and sighting angle. The primary unit consists of four to seven primary rods radiating from one perpendicular primary spine. From here I follow a compass bearing to swim out perpendicular to the wall past a forest of sea pens. The latter device has a flat wheel with a set of perpendicular fins which protrude into the soil. You should never use the karabiner brake for perpendicular or overhanging pitches. Sometimes the watercolor strokes and the pencil lines run in the same direction, and sometimes they are perpendicular. Instead, the reticular lamina moved in a direction perpendicular to its long axis. The traffic coming in a direction perpendicular to Campbell Road makes a signal junction necessary. As you learn it moves across, too, in some direction perpendicular to space. I cut each of the primary remiges 3 cm shorter, measuring from the tip and perpendicular to the long axis. If you're using corduroy remnants, cut the strips across the fabric grain with the cords running perpendicular to the strip length. Let ABC be any triangle, and the angle at B one of its acute angles, and upon BC, one of the sides containing it, let fall the perpendicular. Given a circle, the apothem is the perpendicular distance from the midpoint of a chord to the circle's center. Show More Sentences The ball has a principal axis of rotation parallel to the clubface and perpendicular to the line of flight. In operation the two adjustable perpendicular members are lineally adjusted to accommodate a given press bed. It is in the typical English perpendicular style, being square-ended, not the semi-circular apsidal ends as favoured on the continent. The backward and forward stretching lobes and saddles actually provide resistance to pressure perpendicular to the septum. Perpendicular recording enables the bits to be magnetized on end, perpendicular to the disk surface. They call it T-bone because it looks like a T-bone steak, like you're hitting a perpendicular head-on. These underwater rock piles run perpendicular from shore toward the channel to divert water to help scour the channel. The heads of wheat were fed perpendicular to the drum through a set of convex rollers, such that the drum's scutchers knocked the grain loose. Using small thrusters, the spacecraft will rotate so that the solar panels are oriented perpendicular to the Sun. In the following year they surveyed the perpendicular to the meridian east of Paris, triangulating the area between Paris and Strasbourg. Tongue and groove boards are installed perpendicular to the furring strips, and are either face-nailed or blind-nailed through the tongues. Then draw the lift lines perpendicular to the insertion lines and mark the midpoint between the insertion lines. Subsequently, one defines planes perpendicular to such lines, positioning them at the midpoint between the connected particles. Substrate composition was quantified along several transects perpendicular to stream flow and classified as clay and silt. Fifteen sets of nested plots were located at about 15 meter intervals along line transects perpendicular to the slope within the study areas. These cracks were narrow splits, predominantly perpendicular to the seed's long axis. First, as stated above, local water wires formed transversal, rather than perpendicular, to the membrane. Hold your feet perpendicular to your shins to involve the gastrocnemius muscle. The common perpendicular bisectors of parallel sides bisect the angles of the triangle formed by the extensions of the three equal diagonals. This happens because any line that bisects an angle will also bisect the opposite side, and will be perpendicular to that side. Show More Sentences In the example of the guitar string, the energy travels in the direction of the unplucked string, while the wave-like motion lies perpendicular. Drive perpendicular to the direction of the prevalent winds and begin upwind from the area of active soil erosion. If you use a broadax, hew the log face perpendicular to the ground rather than parallel, as shown here. We can use the direction perpendicular to this plane to give us the direction of our vector product. In-plane vibrometers measure movements perpendicular to the beam axis, similar to the laser surface velocimeter. The first step is removing the doors, which are placed on stands resembling garment racks, then wheeled down a perpendicular subassembly line. Start with a smooth solid of revolution whose cross sections by horizontal planes perpendicular to the rotation axis are circular rings. It might be that one of the sticks bends in the plane perpendicular to the picture, but we can't see that. In a normal Hall effect, a voltage is created perpendicular to an electric current as it flows through a conductor in a magnetic field. In the hypothesis of acute angle, we can, find a perpendicular and an oblique to the same straight which never meet. In each plot, we established two 50-m-long transects perpendicular to each other, centered in the plot and oriented along cardinal points. Finally, it allows spatial resolution in the plane perpendicular to the optical axis. Cholesterol is known to thicken phosphocholine bilayers by orientating the lipids in a more perpendicular fashion to the bilayer plane. But ask him to sit through some hotel cabarets and his hair will rise to the perpendicular and his face will turn a chalky shade of green. A bipolar nebula is one that is created by ejecting material primarily in a flat disk perpendicular to a single axis of symmetry. An anamorph image is produced when the axis of the lens or pinhole is not perpendicular to the film plane. The bending plane is normally perpendicular to the axis of the central pair. Your shoulders need to be perpendicular to your target line as the ball comes off your hand. When the angle of vision is small every visual ray will be nearly perpendicular to the picture plane. This implies that the chain was tilted with respect to the surface, while the adenine group was perpendicular to the surface. Show More Sentences The lines in the miniblotter were perpendicular to the lines of the fixed probes. Just like the Earth, Saturn's rotational axis is not perpendicular to the plane of its orbit. Each tissue sample was completely immersed and oriented such that the tissue surface was perpendicular to the surface of the embedding medium. These bundles are interspersed, and may extend in all directions though they are largely perpendicular to the outer surface. Before proceeding, however, you must check to be sure these two layout lines are perfectly perpendicular to each other. Sloping walls may be sealed as well as vertical, perpendicular walls may be accommodated by the modified flashing. The long axis and the perpendicular of each wheal were measured and mean wheal size calculated. For insertion in the proximal tibia, the spinal needle is directed inferiorly at a 45-degree angle from the perpendicular. Then he runs a dozer up and down the slope, perpendicular to the fall line. Maximum width at hinge line, with lateral commissures almost perpendicular. The viewpoint in this type of perspective lies on a line perpendicular to the picture plane, passing through the central vanishing point. The only fossils I recall seeing that day were masses of a perpendicular pipe-like burrow in the rock. If your building perpendicular to an existing wall, lay the 2x4 plates next to each other and flush the ends. He then contracted his abs to raise his legs until they were perpendicular. Instead, as is shown on the map, most co-tidal lines lie at a marked angle to the longitudes and some are even perpendicular to them. The shaft should be perpendicular to the ground, with the grip pointing just forward of your sternum. Because torque is a cross product of vectors, the direction of the torque is perpendicular to the directions of the force and lever arm. The transects were distributed systematically along the gallery forest and located perpendicular to the current of the stream. Gaping wounds are a result of being stabbed across lines perpendicular to the fibers. The boundary between the viscous and frictional decollements in domain B was perpendicular to the shortening direction. Show More Sentences A horizontal line was drawn 5 mm perpendicular from the sternum keel of each print. These applanate thalli are dimerous and in many examples only have the prostrate filaments and one epithallial cell in the perpendicular system. The strain ellipsoid is oblate, showing the Z axis to be perpendicular to the cleavage. To prevent beaches from disappearing, landowners build rock walls called groins perpendicular to the coast. Spine ornament varies only slightly, mostly in angle of spinules to the shaft, from nearly perpendicular to distinctly distally angled. Any line through the dumb-bell's centre of gravity, perpendicular to the main axis, is also an axis of rotation. These layer lines are perpendicular to the fiber axis in real space. Unfortunately, DNA displays a negative anisotropy in diamagnetic susceptibility that tends to align the DNA axis perpendicular to the magnetic field. The magnetic poles were perpendicular to its rotational axis. It enters the room at a 30-degree angle, its steps and risers mitered to dramatic points, its uprights perpendicular not to the floor but to its own sloping rails. A telephone lay cradled in the perpendicular base under the directory. Actin microfilaments are found perpendicular to the cortical microtubules and may be the source of motion to propel the directional motions of the fluid membrane. For a natural look the first year, broadcast half the seeds over the desired area, then sow the remainder in a direction perpendicular to the first. Then, by applying an electric field perpendicular to these layers, you create a potential well which can confine electrons along this perpendicular direction. Second, for the kinetic behavior, we have assumed that the diffusion in the plane of the surface is much faster than the motion perpendicular to it. The students are then asked to identify perpendicular cross sections of maximal and minimal curvature using coordinates taken essentially from the tangent plane. Using a special needle with two tines, the vaccinator withdraws a drop of vaccine and then makes several quick, perpendicular strokes on your upper arm. A perpendicular is erected from the end plate of the most caudal vertebrae, whose inferior end plate tilts maximally to the concavity of the curve. It was found that the maximum total force is experienced when the major axis of the ellipsoid is perpendicular to the flow and the minimum when it is aligned. Jenkins observed that in living saurians humeral motion primarily takes place perpendicular to the saddle's long axis, across the shorter, convex surface. Show More Sentences The main structural members are oriented perpendicular to the ruled lines. Most people touring the 302-square-kilometre Lushan National Park will be unruffled when they stand in front of perpendicular cliffs and look down on deep valleys. One of the planes of fracture, however, provides a cross section perpendicular to the hinge line and plane of commissure that passes through both ligament areas. In this case, all of the points lying along a line through this circle's center and perpendicular to the plane of the heptagon are equidistant from the polygon's vertices. Uniformly broadcast the seed, then repeat in a perpendicular direction. The relationship between the street and the galleries inside is not as intrusively immediate as is suggested by the open-ended, perpendicular orientation. One fyke net was set perpendicular to the shore at every shore station. The engineers say that by combining three wheels in a mutually perpendicular arrangement, it should be possible to build a ball-shaped, steerable robot. We applied a swelling method to help determine the relative phases of the diffraction peaks along the crystal axis perpendicular to the hexagonal base. Circular clockwise motion of a cilium can generate directional leftward flow if its axis is not perpendicular to the cell surface but tilted posteriorly. As discussed above for the genus, this echinoid is interpreted to have lived upright as epibenthos, with the long axis perpendicular to the substrate. The elevation of the Planalto exceeds 1000 m at the eastern end close to the Atlantic coast, and the Serra Geral facing the east forms a perpendicular cliff. The pale is an ordinary, consisting of two perpendicular lines. Surrounding the pulsar is a bright doughnut-shaped, or toroidal, structure, with jet-like features extending in a perpendicular direction away from the torus. Like the palmate sclerites, the plane of the base is oriented perpendicular to that of the blade, but it may be offset from the blade by a broad constriction. By the use of two mirrors, the fluorescence excitation light of 295-nm wavelength was directed perpendicular onto one of the smallest sides of the quartz prism. The parts of the thick hull moved perpendicular to the midsection. Use an implement with narrow chisel or shovel point shanks spaced four to five feet apart and drive perpendicular to the direction of the prevalent winds. Keep your aircraft perpendicular to an airway when crossing it. To maximize the view, he positioned the house perpendicular to the river, angled the river-side wall, and raised the home on 18-inch reinforced concrete piers. Show More Sentences Wave disturbance was estimated by measuring the fetch for wave height on maps as the width of the river perpendicular to the center of the riverbank site. It now is closed off by the forestry and is about four feet from the edge of a cliff which has a perpendicular drop of 700 ft overlooking the Masshill road. There is no evidence of any previous doming, and the fault geometry indicates that the rift formed as a result of horizontal extension perpendicular to the rift axis. The minor axis is perpendicular to the plane of rotation of the galaxy. On the north west slope of Chevalier Rock is an enormous field of gorgonian seafans in varying shades of orange, all regimentally standing in rows perpendicular to the wall. The movie theater and subway platform scenes are the most interesting, especially the latter with their perpendicular architectonics and shifting perspectives. Broken stone was wedged into the spaces between the tapered perpendicular faces to provide the layer with good lateral control. The threshold is a moving hyperplane which is perpendicular bisector to feature components of consecutive training samples. The EV Kit contains a smiley face card made from an A4 size laminated card with two perpendicular lines bisecting each other to form a cross. The material analyzed came from an area adjacent to a metal fin perpendicular to the hotface in the sintered refractory. In some areas, a perpendicular transform fault separates adjacent segments, forming an arrangement that looks much like a staircase. The system, divided by fault lines called transform faults that lie perpendicular to the ridge, circles the planet like a seam on a baseball. In addition, geometric relationships, such as tangents, perpendicular and collinear, can be applied to sketches. Power blades are available in right angle and vertical orientations to accommodate either coplanar or perpendicular applications. The orientation of the synclinal axis is approximately parallel to the valley and perpendicular to the orientation of striae. The basic structure of the villa is aulic, with perpendicular rooms at either end of the main hall. Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighbourhood road. On one side of the radial edge, the conchoidal fractures form right angles, that is, form a perpendicular with the edge. It is at a perpendicular distance of 16 kadams from a point 69 kadams from the corner of the square. The plane through the centre of the Earth and perpendicular to the rotation axis intersects the surface at a great circle called the Equator. Show More Sentences The decoration found on the stems are perpendicular ribbings, ordinary rounded mouldings, and perpendicular lobings. Other ranges originally built by Edward III sit alongside the Horseshoe, featuring stone perpendicular tracery. Forward players from each team line up a metre apart, perpendicular to the touchline and between 5 m and 15 m from the touchline. When the boat is traveling approximately perpendicular to the wind, this is called reaching. The three main streets are connected by a series of streets running perpendicular to them. In addition, E and B are mutually perpendicular to each other and the direction of wave propagation, and are in phase with each other. Near the end of the recovery, the rower squares the blade into perpendicular orientation with respect to the water, and begins another stroke. Reaction ferries are cable ferries that use the perpendicular force of the current as a source of power. The qiblah wall should, in a properly oriented mosque, be set perpendicular to a line leading to Mecca, the location of the Kaaba. Candle ice is a form of rotten ice that develops in columns perpendicular to the surface of a lake. These polygons are made by drawing lines between gauges, then making perpendicular bisectors of those lines form the polygons. Rogen moraines or ribbed moraines are a type of basal moraines that form a series of ribs perpendicular to the ice flow in an ice sheet. When set at acceptable perpendicular position, an arbor will deliver a trace crosshatching on ripped strips. They form perpendicular to the lateral moraines that they reside between and are composed of unconsolidated debris deposited by the glacier. Groynes are barriers or walls perpendicular to the coastline, often made of greenharts, concrete, rock or wood. It is arguably the only church built in the English perpendicular style in all of France. It was arguably the only church in the English perpendicular style in France. Groynes and breakwaters that run perpendicular to the shore protect it from erosion. Sand dunes can orient themselves perpendicular to the prevailing wind regime within coastal and desert locations. Generally, shot point data have less overposting when the data is posted perpendicular to the orientation of the seismic line. Show More Sentences A sea floor map will show a rather strange pattern of blocky structures that are separated by linear features perpendicular to the ridge axis. This is the typical way that passive margins form, as separated continental tracts move perpendicular to the coastline. Instead of flowing down the gradient, large scale motions in the atmosphere and ocean tend to occur perpendicular to the pressure gradient. Coriolis effects are therefore present, and make the atoms move in a direction perpendicular to the original oscillations. In general, any quadrilateral with perpendicular diagonals, one of which is a line of symmetry, is a kite. Apparent dip is the name of any dip measured in a vertical plane that is not perpendicular to the strike line. Geologic cross sections use apparent dip when they are drawn at some angle not perpendicular to strike. In process of time, the comma was added, which was then merely a perpendicular line, proportioned to the body of the letter. There is usually a bar perpendicular to the other end of the arm, often with a freely rotatable handle or pedal attached. Explosive force is released in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the explosive. Sometimes a row of capstones completes the top of a wall, with the long rectangular side of each capstone perpendicular to the wall alignment. It is caused by strong compression causing fine grained clay flakes to regrow in planes perpendicular to the compression. The church is of cobbles plus stone dressings, much of it in the perpendicular style. Magnetic fields aligned more parallel in the subvirial cloud and more perpendicular in the denser, marginally bound cloud. The anteroposterior axis was perpendicular to the plane defined by the superoinferior axis and the transcondylar axis. We accept that, abrasive paper grain average statistical peak angle perpendicular to the direction of movement the plane is constant. Test diameter was measured at 2 perpendicular points across the ambitus using calipers, and individuals were weighed to the nearest milligram. Greatest width of braincase measured perpendicular to long axis of skull between posterior margins of zygomatic arches. Horizontal leaves were older than the other two leaves selected for measurements and grew perpendicular to and away from the host tree trunk. The dowsing rods align themselves perpendicular to the equipotential surface. Show More Sentences Cobalt-palladium nanodots can be magnetized perpendicular to the plane of the Si base, much like an upright bar magnet. The A-Scan Mode allows direct analysis of the raw signal and the real-time B-Scan Mode provides a cross-sectional view perpendicular to the scanning surface. These devices act similarly to point absorber buoys, with multiple floating segments connected to one another and are oriented perpendicular to incoming waves. Skerries most commonly formed at the outlet of fjords where submerged glacially formed valleys perpendicular to the coast join with other cross valleys in a complex array. The gradient of the function is always perpendicular to the contour lines. The lines of flow-current are always perpendicular to surface along which the potential is constant, the later being referred to as equipotentials. Foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering, but instead is in planes perpendicular to the direction of metamorphic compression. As early as 2004, the company plans to roll out materials that use perpendicular recording, which magnetizes the film up and down rather than side to side. Usually a carded web is formed into folds using a perpendicular lapper. Ideally aerial photographs are taken so the optical axis of the camera is perfectly perpendicular to the ground surface, thereby creating a vertical photograph. In rubber and tire applications where spot size is important, the sensor should be mounted with the laser beam as close to perpendicular to the surface as possible. When the magnetic flux density perpendicular to the package is larger than operate point, the output will be turned on and held until B is lower than release point. Push the vertical mower over the entire lawn in a series of straight passes, then go over it again in perpendicular rows, covering the area in a grid pattern. In taxicab geometry, the perpendicular bisector and the circle are defined in the same way as in Euclidean geometry, but they look quite different. They are oriented perpendicular to the wind in order to be most effective. In the other samples, the weld line is not exactly perpendicular to the imposed tensile loading, which attenuates the depreciative effect of the weld line. In all electromagnetic radiation, the electric field is perpendicular to the direction of propagation, and the electric field direction is the polarization of the wave. This means that sedimentary facies can change either parallel or perpendicular to an imaginary layer of rock with a fixed age, a phenomenon described by Walther's Law. Parking lanes are provided in urban lanes for side parking. Parallel parking is preferred to perpendicular and oblique because it is safe for vehicles moving on the road. These run perpendicular to the direction of the landing aircraft and serve to draw off excess water in rainy conditions that could build up in front of the plane's wheels. Show More Sentences With the main placed perpendicular to the boat to windward, and then pulled in slightly, the leech is allowed to act as the leading edge of an airfoil. The formula implies that the Coriolis acceleration is perpendicular both to the direction of the velocity of the moving mass and to the frame's rotation axis. The bedding-plane slab suggests that the coprolites' long axes lie in the bedding plane, but with two orientations which are approximately perpendicular to each other. Muscle bundles run both parallel and perpendicular to the dermal surfaces of the fin, but only bundles running parallel to the dermal surface showed colabeling. Two of the pairs were arranged perpendicular to the other two, and when all four pairs were used together, they provided roll, pitch and yaw control. The plane of the Earth's orbit about the Sun is called the ecliptic, and the plane perpendicular to the rotation axis of the Earth is the equatorial plane. A Jersey barrier is highly effective at turning a vehicle back into its parallel lane of travel, but much less effective at dealing with a perpendicular force hit. The dethatcher has blades that cut perpendicular to the lawn, thereby removing the dead debris called thatch, which can easily build up in a lawn. A giant phasmid from India whose cage was over two metres tall spent long hours standing upon a perpendicular branch and staring into Mother's eyes. The prefactor preceding the sum is the constant density of states associated with two-dimensional motion for each state n of perpendicular motion. By the later 16th century, gunsmiths in most countries had begun to introduce the short trigger perpendicular to the stock that is familiar to modern shooters. These inductive sensors are built with the toroids in line with the axis of the sensor instead of perpendicular to the axis as is commonly employed. During two subsequent walking transects, perpendicular to and intersecting the flight path of the Bobolink flocks, I flushed Pyralid moths with every step. Examples from Classical Literature The sea anchor remained just under the surface of the ocean in a perpendicular position. There are five axes of symmetry, one tetrad and two pairs of dyad, each perpendicular to a plane of symmetry. To obviate this disturbance it is best to work at incidences as nearly as possible perpendicular. All rings of the disk concentric, of nearly equal breadth, connected by four interradial beams, perpendicular one to another. When a perpendicular surface is reached, the echinus may either ascend it or not, as in the case of the Star-fish. Figs. 50, 60, and 61 are righting movements of echinus on a perpendicular surface. The settling of the wharf had thrown the door and its frame out of the perpendicular. The elements of symmetry are a tetrad axis with a plane perpendicular to it, and a centre of symmetry. Do you see that narrow ledge on the top of the perpendicular cliff on the right? She next builds a second transversal partition and a second longitudinal partition perpendicular to it. The line of support which runs up through the pillar is continued in the triglyph, which also shows perpendicular grooves. All other forms, in which the faces are neither parallel nor perpendicular to the triad axis, are trigonal pyramids. The like is to be said of the oblong of ay, and yi, by drawing the perpendicular sl, as afore. His unfamiliarity with the stairs made him think they were not so nearly perpendicular as was the fact. A path, or rather a ledge cut along the perpendicular face of a rocky mass 200 feet high, led from the chief temple to our vihara. Behind him the rock-face was so nearly perpendicular that no enemy could steal upon him from the rear. Then from e, the point of the continuation, let EO, an infinite perpendicular be erected. The cannon bone extends from the knee or hock to the fetlock, is cylindrical in shape, and stands nearly or quite perpendicular. If the Terrace is at the outer side next the street, a perpendicular, mason-work, retaining wall may be constructed. It is the vertebra which steadies him plumb up to a positive perpendicular. Show More Sentences I have seen a goral run down the face of a cliff which appeared to be almost perpendicular, and where the dogs dared not venture. They were, for the most part, square-cut holes in the face of the perpendicular rock. Perpendicular to the hexad axis are six dyad axes of two kinds and each perpendicular to a vertical plane of symmetry. On the west, a perpendicular mole, crannied like an old ruin, lifts itself straight up towards the sky. The crumples were cut by fissures, perpendicular to which the blue veins ran. The new church, recently built at the foot of the beacon hill, is in the Gothic perpendicular style of architecture. The perpendicular is the mean proportional between the segments of the hypotenuse. But his star turn was an attempt to crawl up the perpendicular side of a burrow, pushing his load in front of him. They are common defects of my own, and one mustn't criticise other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself. And therefore the right line eu, by the 13 e ij, is perpendicular to ao. In figure 8, the lines ab and bd are perpendicular to each other. If he wears it perpendicular, he is honest, pedantic, and boresome. Here the x-axis is directed alongshore and the y-axis is perpendicular to the shoreline. Begin by laying down, in pairs, ab and cd perpendicular to the body. If every diameter is perpendicular to its conjugate the conic is a circle. Moreover, the light refracts as it leaves each hair shaft, much of it spreading outward and perpendicular to the shaft. The pale is like the fesse, except that its direction is perpendicular. Six dyad axes of two kinds are perpendicular to the hexad axis. They move almost as much on the perpendicular as on the horizontal plane. At the second degree it forms a perpendicular cascade of ten feet in height, and consequently impassable by boats. Show More Sentences The lines-of-action of the linear force and centripetal force are nearly perpendicular. Two mortises with sides parallel to the grain and sides perpendicular to it were made in each specimen. The cliff arose for several hundred feet on my right, and on my left was an equal and nearly perpendicular drop to the bottom of a rocky ravine. Ancient stonecutters could thus cleave it perpendicular to the crystal axis to produce hexagonal prisms of any desired length. In oscillatory portion, the transparent and opaque bands are periodically perpendicular to the stress loading direction. The crags above us were not merely perpendicular, but curved outwards at the top, so that ascent was out of the question. This mode of walking the tree is only practicable where the trunk declines considerably from the perpendicular. They then abandoned the perpendicular line, and made a sharp turn westward toward Ghat, guided, with difficulty, by the Touaregs. By the extremities of each side of the polygon, you will trace two diagonals, which will cut the perpendicular. These four perpendicular ranges of windows admitted air, and, the fire being kindled, heat, or smoke at least, to each of the galleries. The hall was put up in 1446, and is therefore in the perpendicular style. The post must, of course, be perpendicular to the tops of the plates. In this case the projecting leg is perpendicular to the roof. A plumb line is a line perpendicular to the horizon, hanging. About two and a half miles below this the river expands into a wide basin, seemingly dammed up by a perpendicular ridge of black rock. Occasionally throughout the next 45 minutes, they crossed and uncrossed themselves but alas they never moved from the horizontal to the perpendicular. Bivalve size was measured by the perpendicular axes of height, from umbo to distal tip, and length, the longest axis from anterior to posterior ends. Not wishing to leave the stream the two waded along its bed to a spot where the gorge widened between perpendicular bluffs to a wooded acre of level land. The fibre orientation is important, because the fibres aligned in the direction of major stresses carry more load than fibres perpendicular to this direction. The balloon had just come in sight, far aloft in the sky, where it hovered majestically for a few moments, and then descended slowly, without deviating from its perpendicular. Show More Sentences In conformity with such Wieroo architecture as he had already observed, the well through which the ladder rose continually canted at an angle from the perpendicular. This blast is said to be caused by a narrow gap or funnel in the mountains, through which the river forces its way between perpendicular precipices, resembling cut rocks. It was supplied with two rows of seats, perpendicular to the direction of the train on either side of an aisle which conducted to the front and rear platforms. The river had worn away the edge of the soft rock in such a manner as to render its first pitch less abrupt and perpendicular than is usual at waterfalls. Lorry sat at great books ruled for figures, with perpendicular iron bars to his window as if that were ruled for figures too, and everything under the clouds were a sum. Find more words! Another word for Opposite of Meaning of Rhymes with Sentences with Find word forms Translate from English Translate to English Words With Friends Scrabble Crossword / Codeword Words starting with Words ending with Words containing exactly Words containing letters Pronounce Find conjugations Find names From Afrikaans From Albanian From Amharic From Arabic From Armenian From Azerbaijani From Basque From Belarusian From Bengali From Bosnian From Bulgarian From Catalan From Cebuano From Chichewa From Chinese From Corsican From Croatian From Czech From Danish From Dutch From Esperanto From Estonian From Farsi From Filipino From Finnish From French From Frisian From Galician From Georgian From German From Greek From Gujarati From Haitian Creole From Hausa From Hebrew From Hindi From Hmong From Hungarian From Icelandic From Igbo From Indonesian From Irish From Italian From Japanese From Javanese From Kannada From Kazakh From Khmer From Korean From Kurdish From Kyrgyz From Lao From Latin From Latvian From Lithuanian From Luxembourgish From Macedonian From Malagasy From Malay From Malayalam From Maltese From Maori From Marathi From Mongolian From Burmese From Nepali From Norwegian From Polish From Portuguese From Punjabi From Romanian From Russian From Samoan From Scots Gaelic From Serbian From Sesotho From Shona From Sinhala From Slovak From Slovenian From Somali From Spanish From Sundanese From Swahili From Swedish From Tajik From Tamil From Telugu From Thai From Turkish From Ukrainian From Urdu From Uzbek From Vietnamese From Welsh From Xhosa From Yiddish From Yoruba From Zulu To Afrikaans To Albanian To Amharic To Arabic To Armenian To Azerbaijani To Basque To Belarusian To Bengali To Bosnian To Bulgarian To Catalan To Cebuano To Chichewa To Chinese To Corsican To Croatian To Czech To Danish To Dutch To Esperanto To Estonian To Farsi To Filipino To Finnish To French To Frisian To Galician To Georgian To German To Greek To Gujarati To Haitian Creole To Hausa To Hebrew To Hindi To Hmong To Hungarian To Icelandic To Igbo To Indonesian To Irish To Italian To Japanese To Javanese To Kannada To Kazakh To Khmer To Korean To Kurdish To Kyrgyz To Lao To Latin To Latvian To Lithuanian To Luxembourgish To Macedonian To Malagasy To Malay To Malayalam To Maltese To Maori To Marathi To Mongolian To Burmese To Nepali To Norwegian To Polish To Portuguese To Punjabi To Romanian To Russian To Samoan To Scots Gaelic To Serbian To Sesotho To Shona To Sinhala To Slovak To Slovenian To Somali To Spanish To Sundanese To Swahili To Swedish To Tajik To Tamil To Telugu To Thai To Turkish To Ukrainian To Urdu To Uzbek To Vietnamese To Welsh To Xhosa To Yiddish To Yoruba To Zulu English French Afrikaans Word Albanian Word Arabic Word Bengali Word Chinese Word Croatian Word Czech Word Danish Word Dutch Word English Word Finnish Word French Word German Word Greek Word Hindi Word Hungarian Word Icelandic Word Indonesian Word Italian Word Japanese Word Korean Word Latin Word Malay Word Malayalam Word Marathi Word Nepali Word Norwegian Word Polish Word Portuguese Word Romanian Word Russian Word Serbian Word Slovak Word Spanish Word Swahili Word Swedish Word Tamil Word Telugu Word Thai Word Turkish Word Ukrainian Word Uzbek Word Vietnamese Word Welsh Word All words 2-letter words 3-letter words 4-letter words 5-letter words 6-letter words 7-letter words 8-letter words 9-letter words 10-letter words 11-letter words 12-letter words 13-letter words 14-letter words Plural of Singular of Past tense of Present tense of Verb for Adjective for Adverb for Noun for Meaning of name Origin of name Names meaning Names starting with Names of origin perpendicular Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search Advanced Word Finder See Also What is another word for perpendicular? What is the opposite of perpendicular? Words that rhyme with perpendicular What is the plural of perpendicular? What is the adverb for perpendicular? What is the adjective for perpendicular? What is the noun for perpendicular? Translations for perpendicular Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words perpend perp peroxy peroxisomes peroxisome peroxisomal Perpendicular perpendicularity perpendicularly perpetrate perpetrated perpetrates 13-letter Words Starting With p pe per perp perpe perpen perpend perpendi perpendic perpendicu perpendicul