Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - perpendicular
Perpendicular
perpendicular
adj. & n. --adj. 1 a at right angles to the plane of the horizon. b (usu. foll. by to) Geom. at right angles (to a given line, plane, or surface). 2 upright, vertical. 3 (of a slope etc.) very steep. 4 (Perpendicular) Archit. of the third stage of English Gothic (15th-16th c.) with vertical tracery in large windows. 5 joc. in a standing position. --n. 1 a perpendicular line. 2 a plumb-rule or a similar instrument. 3 (prec. by the) a perpendicular line or direction (is out of the perpendicular). Derivatives perpendicularity n. perpendicularly adv. Etymology: ME f. L perpendicularis f. perpendiculum plumb-line f. PER- + pendere hang
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I. adjective see: pendant Date: 14th century 1. standing at right angles to the plane of the horizon ; exactly upright, being at right angles to a given line or plane, extremely steep ; precipitous, of or relating to a medieval English Gothic style of architecture in which vertical lines predominate, relating to, uniting, or consisting of individuals of dissimilar type or on different levels, see: vertical ~ity noun ~ly adverb II. noun Date: 1571 a line at right angles to a line or plane (as of the horizon) ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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