PERPENDICULARITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perpendicularity mean? 

• PERPENDICULARITY (noun)
  The noun PERPENDICULARITY has 2 senses:

1. the relation of opposition between things at right angles

2. the quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon)

  Familiarity information: PERPENDICULARITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERPENDICULARITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The relation of opposition between things at right angles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

orthogonal opposition; orthogonality; perpendicularity

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)