Meanings
plural perpendicularities
- uncountableusuallyThe condition of being perpendicular.
In their spare moments the animals would walk round and round the half-finished mill, admiring the strength and perpendicularity of its walls and marvelling that they should ever have been able to build anything so imposing.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe relation of opposition between things at right angles
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Finnish kohtisuoruus
- kohtisuoruusthe condition of being perpendicular
Indonesian ketegaklurusan
- ketegaklurusanthe condition of being perpendicular
Polish prostopadłość
- prostopadłośćthe condition of being perpendicular
Tagalog katadlungan
- katadlunganthe condition of being perpendicular
Tamil செங்குத்து
- செங்குத்து (ceṅkuttu)the condition of being perpendicular
Cite this entry
perpendicularity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perpendicularity
“perpendicularity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perpendicularity. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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