perpendicular

With a forkball that looked as if it was dropping perpendicular to the ground, he struck out the first two batters he faced.

Another phrase you might hear to describe a bowler is "beyond the perpendicular".

ANE generates an electrical voltage in a magnetic metal that is perpendicular to the magnetisation and a temperature gradient.

But, on the day of an equinox, the tilt of Earth's axis is perpendicular to the Sun's rays, producing a nearly equal amount of day and night all over the world.

But someone in L.A. could have felt the “S” wave, in which bedrock oscillates perpendicular to the direction of the propagation of the wave, according to Page.