perpendicularity

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Etymology[edit]

perpendicular +‎ -ity

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

perpendicularity (usually uncountable, plural perpendicularities)

  1. The condition of being perpendicular.
    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm [], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
      In their spare moments the animals would walk round and round the half-finished mill, admiring the strength and perpendicularity of its walls and marvelling that they should ever have been able to build anything so imposing.

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