What is another word for perpendicularly?

Pronunciation: [pˌɜːpəndˈɪkjʊləli] (IPA)

Perpendicularly is a term that refers to a vertical or upright position and can be used to indicate a direction that is at a right angle to a plane or a surface. Some synonyms for perpendicularly include uprightly, vertically, orthogonally, plumb, right, and squarely. Uprightly and vertically both refer to positions that are straight up and down, while orthogonally indicates a direction that is perpendicular or at a right angle to a surface. Plumb and right can both mean straight or true, while squarely suggests an equal or balanced position. Overall, using these synonyms can help you to communicate with precision when describing objects or movements that are perpendicular to a surface or plane.

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Usage examples for Perpendicularly

The alterations of electric strain directed perpendicularly to the earth, and of the associated magnetic force parallel to the earth, constitute an electric wave in the ether, just as the alternations of pressure and motion of air molecules constitute an air wave.
"Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy"
John Ambrose Fleming
Expose the back of your hand to the sun, holding the hand in such a position that the sunlight strikes perpendicularly upon it; then turn the hand so that the light falls quite obliquely upon it and note how much more vigorous is the warming effect of the sun in the first position than in the second.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
Oriole held up three of his fingers-pointing perpendicularly towards the ceiling of the room.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid

Famous quotes with Perpendicularly

  • Every measurable thing except numbers is imagined in the manner of a continuous quantity. Therefore, for the mensuration of such a thing, it is necessary that points, lines, and surfaces, or their properties, be imagined. For in them... measure or ratio is initially found... Therefore, every intensity which can be acquired successively ought to be imagined by a straight line perpendicularly erected on some point of the space or subject of the intensible thing, e.g., a quality... And since the quantity or ratio of lines is better known and is more readily conceived by us—nay the line is in the first species of continua, therefore such intensity ought to be imagined by lines... Therefore, equal intensities are designated by equal lines, a double intensity by a double line, and always in the same way if one proceeds proportionally.
    Nicole Oresme
  • I met Sophie Taeuber in Zurich in 1915. Even then she already knew how to give direct and palpable shape to her inner reality. In those days this kind of art was called 'abstract art'. Now it is known as 'concrete art,' for nothing is more concrete than the psychic reality it expresses. Like music this art is tangible inner reality she was already dividing the surface of a watercolor into squares and rectangles which she juxtaposed horizontally and perpendicularly. She constructed her painting like a work of masonry. The colors are luminous, going from rawest yellow to deep red or.. ..blue.
    Jean Arp
  • Already in 1915, Sophie Taeuber [his wife] divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly [as Mondrian, Itten and Paul Klee did in the same period]. She constructs them as if they were masonry work. The colors are luminous, ranging from the raw yellow to deep red or blue.
    Jean Arp

Related words: perpendicular lines, perpendicular bisectors, perpendicular angles, perpendicularity, perpendicular line intersecting circles, perpendicularity definition

Similar words: obliquely, diagonally

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