perpendicular

Meanwhile, southerly winds pushed the system right up against — and perpendicular to — the Santa Ynez Mountains.

By contrast, transverse interactions are a recently discovered class of forces that act perpendicular to that central axis.

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.