Perpendicularly in a sentence as an adverb

The boat can get lift and push from "different air" as it slides perpendicularly with the direction of the wind.

Driverless cars can just go through intersections whenever no vehicle needs to go through perpendicularly.

Plus, the article gets it wrong: the Paperwhite screen isn't backlit, the leds are oriented perpendicularly from the reading angle, so there is no direct light shining your eyes.

Why don't they just perpendicularly fix the reader above the disk, rotate the disk and then use a linear actuator to move the reader back and forth - exactly like optical drives?

A greyscale push broom scanner would have a single row of pixels that are lined up perpendicularly to the direction of travel and whose rays are in the plane perpendicular to the direction of travel.

Someone says, "I don't know why anybody's surprised, the crash happened at an intersection where two roads cross perpendicularly, and vehicles are traveling on those roads," are you going to nod at their profound observation?

An existing row of paralel parking spots is all of a sudden a mass transport station where pods dock perpendicularly and await commuters; no need for fancy elevators, just an steep ***** to the tunnels below.

It's well worth reading in full on eur-lex for riveting prose like "the measurement, in millimetres, of the thickness of a transverse section of the fruit between the lateral faces and the middle, perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis".

> "the measurement, in millimetres, of the thickness of a transverse section of the fruit between the lateral faces and the middle, perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis"Oh, look, a good definition in a legal document.

But as you rotate velocity out of time and into space, it becomes more perpendicular to time, so any force applied perpendicularly to time is now more parallel to your velocity, having a smaller component perpendicular to one's velocity.

Why don't they just perpendicularly fix the reader above the disk, rotate the disk and then use a linear actuator to move the reader back and forth - exactly like optical drives?The read/write arm needs speed and extremely fine-tuned movement that can't be had from a mechanical actuator.

If, as shown in the final diagram, the water, when added, forms a flat surface, and you are looking at it fairly perpendicularly, then none of the rays that are totally internally reflected would have been in that cone and ended up entering your eye anyway - they are too oblique.

Perpendicularly definitions

adverb

straight up or down without a break

See also: sheer

adverb

in a perpendicular manner; "this red line runs perpendicularly to the green line"