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VERTICALNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does verticalness mean?
• VERTICALNESS (noun)
The noun VERTICALNESS has 1 sense:
1. position at right angles to the horizon
Familiarity information: VERTICALNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Position at right angles to the horizon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
erectness; uprightness; verticality; verticalness
Hypernyms ("verticalness" is a kind of...):
position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)
Derivation:
vertical (at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line)
vertical (upright in position or posture)
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