vertical
Cut the pepper in half vertically and remove the seeds.
Fluorescent lights hang vertically from the ceiling as you come in.
The spacecraft will climb vertically, reaching the speed of sound in 10 seconds.

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vertically
Running vertically down the centre of each door is an expansion slot between the two sides of the panel, producing a clear vertical stripe.
Subsequently, saltation begins when particles move vertically into the air by a distance of the order of their diameter.
Because the eye camera was remote, movement of the participant's head was restricted to the range of 12 inches horizontally and four inches vertically.
In essence, this represents the integration of two or more vertically aligned stages in the marketing system through greater coordination.
Even if some connections for intermediate (1-10 mm) distances are tangential, the final synaptically active parts of the axons are vertically oriented.
Vertically-adjacent pairs of intermediate and high intelligence subjects have been matched for somatotype.
The three-dimensional representation of distance is also shrunk vertically in comparison with horizontally, again for the purpose of minimizing neural resources.
Suitable operators make it possible to move horizontally within a given temporal domain (displacement operators), and to move vertically across temporal domains (projection operators).
For example, all columns in a template have to align vertically.
This led to the development of vertically integrated production systems, particularly of animals10, and hastened the development of technologies supporting confinement animal production.
When the binder was opened like a book, vertically, a drawing was visible on each side.
As healthcare institutions expand and vertically integrate, healthcare delivery is less constrained by geography, nationality, or even by institutional boundaries.
Regional administration is vertically divided into several tiers which are tightly linked by the principle of hierarchical control.
The neuronal chains of the cortex are indeed preferentially vertically oriented.
But the two passages are not parallel in the thematic-formal world; they are not vertically aligned in the example.
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