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- Perpendicular - a. - 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.
- Perpendicular - a. - At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc.
- Perpendicular - n. - A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction.
- Perpendicular - n. - A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side.
- Perpendicularity - n. - The quality or state of being perpendicular.
- Perpendicularly - adv. - In a perpendicular manner; vertically.
- Kilting - n. - A perpendicular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one.
- Lemniscate - n. - A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.
- Paly - a. - Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.
- Quarter - n. - One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point.
- Sine - n. - The perpendicular itself. See Sine of angle, below.
- Harelip - n. - A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare.
- Vane - n. - A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.
- Crotchet - n. - The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
- Mural - a. - Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep; as, a mural precipice.
- Column - n. - A perpendicular line of figures.
- Wrench - v. t. - The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench.
- Table - n. - A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane.
- Sarcina - n. - A genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group.
- Canton - n. - A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
- Zone - n. - The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes; the portion of a surface of revolution included between two planes perpendicular to the axis.
- Twibil - n. - A kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it.
- Column - n. - A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.
- Inclined - p. p. & a. - Bent out of a perpendicular position, or into a curve with the convex side uppermost.
- Rake - n. - the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
- Shear - v. t. - A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
- Substyle - n. - A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style.
- Rake - v. i. - To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
- Breve - n. - A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: / ), but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; -- formerly much used for choir service.
- Over - prep. - Above the perpendicular height or length of, with an idea of measurement; as, the water, or the depth of water, was over his head, over his shoes.
- Rake - n. - The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
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- H3559 כּוּן - 3559 כּוּן - כּוּן - - kûwn - koon - a primitive root; properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous); certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-) stablish, stand, tarry, [idiom] very deed. - Verb - heb
- G3717 ὀρθός - 3717 ὀρθός - ὈΡΘΌΣ - - orthós - or-thos' - probably from the base of ὄρος; right (as rising), i.e. (perpendicularly) erect (figuratively, honest), or (horizontally) level or direct:--straight, upright. - Adjective - greek