Usually means: At right angles to something.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word perpendicularly:

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  1. perpendicularly: Merriam-Webster
  2. perpendicularly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. perpendicularly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. perpendicularly: Vocabulary.com
  5. perpendicularly: Wordnik
  6. perpendicularly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. perpendicularly: Wiktionary
  8. Perpendicularly, perpendicularly: Dictionary.com
  9. Perpendicularly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Perpendicularly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. perpendicularly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. perpendicularly: Rhymezone
  13. Perpendicularly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. perpendicularly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. perpendicularly: FreeDictionary.org
  16. perpendicularly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. perpendicularly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. perpendicularly: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (perpendicularly)

▸ adverb:  In a perpendicular manner.

Similar:
sheer, orthogonally, plumb, transversely, paraxially, transversally, perimetrically, periprandially, paralaterally, tangentially, more...

Types:
horizontally, vertically, diagonally, obliquely, more...

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Similar:
sheer, orthogonally, plumb, transversely, paraxially, transversally, perimetrically, periprandially, paralaterally, tangentially, more...

Types:
horizontally, vertically, diagonally, obliquely, more...



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