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PERPENDICULARITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("perpendicularity" is a kind of...):
oblongness; rectangularity (the property of being shaped like a rectangle)
Derivation:
perpendicular (at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line)
perpendicular (intersecting at or forming right angles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The relation of opposition between things at right angles
Synonyms:
orthogonal opposition; orthogonality; perpendicularity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("perpendicularity" is a kind of...):
opposition (a direction opposite to another)
Derivation:
perpendicular (at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line)
perpendicular (intersecting at or forming right angles)
