Usually means: Perpendicular to the horizontal plane.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word vertical:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. vertical: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vertical, the vertical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vertical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vertical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Vertical, vertical: Wordnik
  6. vertical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. vertical: Wiktionary
  8. vertical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. vertical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. vertical: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. vertical: Dictionary.com
  12. vertical: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. vertical: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Vertical (angles), Vertical (company), Vertical (novel), Vertical (publisher), Vertical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Vertical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. vertical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. vertical: Rhymezone
  18. vertical, vertical, vertical(e) (-aux): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. vertical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. vertical: Free Dictionary
  21. vertical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. vertical: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. vertical: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. vertical: Vocabulary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vertical: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vertical: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. Vertical (angles), vertical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Vertical: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  5. vertical: Medical dictionary
  6. Vertical: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vertical: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. vertical: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. Vertical: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vertical: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. vertical: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

(Note: See verticality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.
adjective:  In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
adjective:  In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
adjective:  (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
adjective:  (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
adjective:  (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.
noun:  A vertex or zenith.
noun:  A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
noun:  An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
noun:  A vertical component of a structure.
noun:  (marketing) A vertical market.
noun:  (politics) A command structure for exertion of political power.

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