8 example sentences using perpendicular.
Perpendicular used in a sentence
Perpendicular in a sentence as a noun
Docking was hard, until you learnt how to line up properly from a good perpendicular angle.
The bike lane on the famous Venice beach was actually where the rail used to be. One pic I saw showed the rail didn't run to the beach at a perpendicular angle.
This perpendicular stress caused the contacts to break, first causing contact flakiness, then failure.
It will eventually get to you because it is moving perpendicular to it's surface.
Perpendicular in a sentence as an adjective
Sure, they are patenting taking a picture against a white background when perpendicular against a... Who gives a ****.
Not sure what a photon is when it isn't moving at all, perhaps a point with an electric field and equal and perpendicular magnetic field.
I suspect the walls in between the "separate entrances" force the wind moving semi-perpendicular to those walls into the entrance as well.
The SP2 Wacom setup was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, in my experience -- accuracy was terrible in the corners / near the edges, and parallax was a serious issue, if you did not write/draw with the pen perpendicular to the surface of the screen, there was a significant offset from the tip of the pen to where the line was actually drawn.
Perpendicular definitions
a straight line at right angles to another line
a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
See also: English-Gothic
a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point
an extremely steep face
intersecting at or forming right angles; "the axes are perpendicular to each other"
at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a vertical camera angle"; "the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab"; "measure the perpendicular height"
See also: vertical
extremely steep; "the great perpendicular face of the cliff"