perpendicular
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Is perpendicular a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to something).Examples: "In most houses, the walls are perpendicular to the floor."; "A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever."Synonyms: normal, orthogonal
noun (English)
1. (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
2. (obsolete, slang) A meal eaten at a tavern bar while standing up.obsoleteslang
adj (English)
1. (architecture) Of a style of English Gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, marked by stiff and rectilinear lines, mostly vertical window-tracery, depressed or four-centre arch, fan-tracery vaulting, and panelled walls.
Definition source: Wiktionary