1 ~ (to sth) (usually technical) forming an angle of 90ｰ with another line or surface; upright and going straight up:
Are the lines perpendicular to each other? * The staircase was almost perpendicular (= very steep).
2 (Perpendicular) (architecture) connected with a style of architecture common in England in the 14th and 15th centuries, that makes use of vertical lines and wide arches
noun (the perpendicular) [sing.] a line, position or direction that is exactly perpendicular:
The wall is a little out of the perpendicular.
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