perpendicularity

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

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2014

The abyss is girt with a ragged wall of dark trachyte, which rises on the inside at various angles between forty-five degrees and perpendicularity.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 by Various

To secure the perpendicularity of the shaft, it is necessary to leave a large mass or pillar of the seam untouched around the pit bottom.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

Aplomb, a-plom′, n. the perpendicular, perpendicularity: self-possession, coolness.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

When he revolves, the irritative associations of the muscular motions, which were used to preserve his perpendicularity, become disordered by their new modes of successive exertion; and he begins to fall.

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