Synonyms:
vertical, perpendicular
Meaning: at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a vertical camera angle"; "the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab"; "measure the perpendicular height"
Usage examples
VERTICAL DESCENT
Vertical wrinkles in the brow show the number of husbands one will have.
Just as they twist and turn in the horizontal plane, so do they in the vertical.
It added spin to his vertical axis, but the rope came into view within arm's reach.
It is made up of thin vertical or inclined sheets or slabs set on edge and welded together.
Jackknifing double, she put both forearms flat on the carpet and lifted both legs into the vertical.
We could see where it poured down a narrow vertical cataract from an opening in the face of the cliff.
The wall that confined the fiord, like all the coast of the peninsula, was composed of a series of vertical columns thirty feet high.
"In my experimental plant for concentrating iron ore in the northern part of New Jersey, we had a vertical drier, a column about nine feet square and eighty feet high.
In the two end pieces of a heavy iron frame were set three rolls, or cylinders--one in the centre, another below, and the other above--all three being in a vertical line.