perpendicularity

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Symmetry and perpendicularity reign, with fewer than five sculptures placed diagonally.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2014

The symmetry of perpendicularity is a particular instance of the symmetry of the mutual relations between two time-systems.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

Just below the exit of the pool these natural terraces all culminate in a jutting angle of the cliff, which protrudes, sharp and awful in its unbroken perpendicularity.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

We shall find that this discovery of definite unique properties defining perpendicularity is of critical importance in the theory of congruence which is the topic for the next lecture.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

Whence the objects appear to librate or circulate according to the motions of our heads, which is called dizziness; and we lose the means of balancing ourselves, or preserving our perpendicularity, by vision.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus