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Noun
Definition: a straight line at right angles to another line
Definition: a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
Definition: a 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
Definition: an extremely steep face
Definition: A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
Adjective
Definition: intersecting at or forming right angles; "the axes are perpendicular to each other"
Definition: at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a vertical camera angle"; "the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab"; "measure the perpendicular height"
Definition: so steep as to be nearly veritcal; "the great perpendicular face of the cliff"
Definition: at or forming a right angle (to something).
Definition: 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.