Examples of 'perpendicular' in a sentence

Meaning of "perpendicular"

Perpendicular is a noun that refers to a line, plane, or surface that is at a 90-degree angle to another line, plane, or surface. It is used to describe objects or surfaces that intersect or are at right angles to each other
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  • At or forming a right angle (to something).
  • Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.
  • Independent of or irrelevant to each other; orthogonal.
  • A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.

How to use "perpendicular" in a sentence

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Perpendicular orientation will guard against flutter.
The tire should be perpendicular to the ground.
Perpendicular direction is called slow scan direction.
Place the tool perpendicular to the material.
Perpendicular to the one that we had before.
Apply the stream perpendicular to the teeth.
Perpendicular or in plane anisotropies could be thus obtained.
The unit is not perpendicular to the target.
Shins should not move beyond perpendicular.
Keep jet perpendicular to the film surface.
Use where walls are not perpendicular to base.
Transects perpendicular to the contours of krill density.
He retained the original perpendicular north arcade.
Loading perpendicular to the surface of the shell.
We assume this line is perpendicular to that line.

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Lines perpendicular to that horizon give depth.
The angle should be perpendicular to the skull.
Check to be sure the line is perfectly perpendicular.
The pin must be perpendicular to the sheet.
Tool for installing the grid perpendicular.
Drive the nails perpendicular to the grain.
The guide slot must be exactly perpendicular.
Reference axis perpendicular to the roadway plane.
There is some kind of low tunnel perpendicular to us.
Floor joists perpendicular to separating loadbearing wall.
The wall must be flat and perpendicular.
Place your feet perpendicular to the trajectory.
A fall from such a height is seldom perpendicular.
Rolling shear stress perpendicular to the surfaces.
Be certain that the frame is perfectly perpendicular.
Planar shear stress perpendicular to the surfaces.
Everything is nice and fine and perpendicular.
Screen surface is not perpendicular to projected image.
Hold the beard styler attachment perpendicular.
Keeping the tool perpendicular to the contour.
It is interrupted by the highway that runs perpendicular to it.
Latitudinal planes perpendicular to the polar axis.
It also implies that the diagonals are perpendicular.
Cabinet sides must be perpendicular to cabinet floor.
An orthodiagonal quadrilateral is a quadrilateral whose diagonals are perpendicular.
Cabinet front that is perpendicular to the floor.
Perpendicular to the axis of the fairway.
The adapter should be perpendicular to the ground.
Stay perpendicular to the chest wall.
The pores are arranged perpendicular to each other.
Perpendicular to the axis of the channel.
Distribution of movements perpendicular to the backbone track.
This perpendicular distance is called the moment arm.
See how it rests perpendicular to the wall.
Frightened by the fact that the perpendicular.

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