perpendicular
The bird floats about in circles and then shoots down perpendicularly to the ground.
This part of the village has narrow streets laid out perpendicularly on either side of a wider, straight street.
She steered past some white cliffs which rose perpendicularly from the water.

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Geometry: describing angles, lines & orientations
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angularity
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asymptote
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sine
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triangulate
unbowed
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vertically

Examples of perpendicularly

perpendicularly
The fastest growing wave appears to be a zero-frequency mode, elongated perpendicularly to the plasma inhomogeneity.
The stored vectors should perpendicularly intersect each other to enhance the discriminating capability.
Accordingly, strictly perpendicularly propagating electrostatic waves cannot accelerate particles, because no resonant particles exist.
Under these conditions, the laser pulse within its whole 30 m focus diameter can be regarded as a plane wave perpendicularly irradiating the target.
With two independent, perpendicularly polarized beams with temporal and spatial overlap, it is possible to convert the power from both beams into the second harmonic.
During the formation of the plasma, electrons escape and the plasma expands perpendicularly to the target surface (x-direction).
Below the test section a steel channel section beam, oriented perpendicularly to the flow direction, was affixed to the bed of a milling machine.
We placed food inside one of two hollow tubes perpendicularly oriented toward the subjects.
A right circular cone has a vertex perpendicularly above or below the centre of a circular base.
Samples were irradiated perpendicularly to their surface under vacuum conditions.
A cone with the vertex perpendicularly over the centre of a circular base is a right circular cone.
In this way, for instance, a hemispherical workpiece can be processed everywhere perpendicularly to its surface.
They concluded that the hydrophobic domain was inserted into the membrane as a perpendicularly oriented helix and that the charged domain adopted an amphipathic secondary structure at the membrane surface.
The tillage practices formed the main plots with the 12 combinations plus the control randomized perpendicularly in plots measuring 6 6 6 m within the main plots.
Lastly, he denied that a heavy body projected perpendicularly would have taken the same amount of time in its ascent, as it would in its descent (ibid.).
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