Usually means: Lines intersecting at ninety degrees.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. perpendiculars: Merriam-Webster
  2. perpendiculars: Collins English Dictionary
  3. perpendiculars: Vocabulary.com
  4. perpendiculars: Wordnik
  5. perpendiculars: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. perpendiculars: Wiktionary
  7. perpendiculars: Dictionary.com
  8. Perpendiculars: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Perpendiculars: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  10. Perpendiculars: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. perpendiculars: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Perpendicular)

adjective:  (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to something).
adjective:  Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.
adjective:  Independent of or irrelevant to each other; orthogonal.
noun:  (geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
noun:  A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
noun:  (obsolete, slang) A meal eaten at a tavern bar while standing up.
adjective:  (architecture) Of a style of English Gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, marked by stiff and rectilinear lines, mostly vertical window-tracery, depressed or four-centre arch, fan-tracery vaulting, and panelled walls.
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