Vertical
['vɜːtɪk(ə)l] or ['vɝtɪkl]
Definition
(noun.) something that is oriented vertically.
(adj.) of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group); 'vertical social mobility' .
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution .
Editor: Miles--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.
(a.) Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line.
(n.) Vertical position; zenith.
(n.) A vertical line, plane, or circle.
Checked by Justin
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Perpendicular (to the horizon), upright, plumb.
Editor: Meredith
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Perpendicular, upright
ANT:Inclined, sloped, scarped
Edited by Linda
Examples
- The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Her engines are of the twin screw, vertical triple expansion direct acting inverted cylinder type. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If you stare at a checkerboard you can see it as black on red, or red on black, as series of horizontal, vertical or diagonal steps which recede or protrude. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The true definition of the bicycle is a two-wheeled vehicle, with one wheel in front and the other in the rear, and both in the same vertical plane. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The two ends of the wire were connected with an electro-magnet fastened to a vertical wooden frame. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- About every fifteenth address plate in a drawer was equipped with a vertical, subdividing tab--numerical, alphabetical or geographical as the case might require. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The new operating room contained sixteen vertical engines with a capacity each of over 5,000 horse-power. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The roadway hangs from these cables, suspended by 624 vertical rods. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Blowing engines are of horizontal compound and horizontal vertical compound types, capable of blowing a pressure of 25 pounds of air. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One of the latest forms of such a collector has for its essential principle the vertical or rotatory air current, which it is claimed moves and precipitates the finest particles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The positive or nickel plate (Fig. 6) is seen to consist of two rows of round rods or pencils, thirty in number, held in a vertical position by a steel support-frame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The engine here employed was the Catch Me Who Can, and had a vertical cylinder and piston, without the toothed gear wheels shown in the illustration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A vertical shaft D is rotated constantly by a band on pulley _d_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The great lantern, Fig. 45, is carried by a vertical shaft, which terminates at its lower end in a hollow drum, which latter floats in a bath of mercury. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The verticals of these letters were originally five holes high. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The verticals of the letters were perforated only four holes high, and the four rollers were arranged in pairs, one pair being slightly in advance of the other. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Thaddeus