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VERTICALITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does verticality mean?
• VERTICALITY (noun)
The noun VERTICALITY has 1 sense:
1. position at right angles to the horizon
Familiarity information: VERTICALITY 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 ("verticality" 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)
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