PERPENDICULARITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)