 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vertical
adjective
1: at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line;
"a vertical camera angle"; "the monument consists of
two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab";
"measure the perpendicular height" [syn: {perpendicular}]
[ant: {inclined}, {horizontal}]
2: upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect
flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates
aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he
sat bolt upright" [syn: {erect}, {upright}] [ant: {unerect}]
noun
1: something that is oriented vertically
2: a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball
sailed between the uprights" [syn: {upright}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vertical \Ver"ti*cal\, adjective [Cf. F. vertical. See {Vertex}.]
1. Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or
highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith;
perpendicularly above one.
Charity . . . is the vertical top of all religion.
--Jer. Taylor.
2. Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb;
as, a vertical line.
{Vertical angle} (Astron. & Geod.), an angle measured on a
vertical circle, called an angle of elevation, or
altitude, when reckoned from the horizon upward, and of
depression when downward below the horizon.
{Vertical anthers} (Bot.), such anthers as stand erect at the
top of the filaments.
{Vertical circle} (Astron.), an azimuth circle. See under
{Azimuth}.
{Vertical drill}, an drill. See under {Upright}.
{Vertical fire} (Mil.), the fire, as of mortars, at high
angles of elevation.
{Vertical leaves} (Bot.), leaves which present their edges to
the earth and the sky, and their faces to the horizon, as
in the Australian species of Eucalyptus.
{Vertical limb}, a graduated arc attached to an instrument,
as a theodolite, for measuring vertical angles.
{Vertical line}.
(a) (Dialing) A line perpendicular to the horizon.
(b) (Conic Sections) A right line drawn on the vertical
plane, and passing through the vertex of the cone.
(c) (Surv.) The direction of a plumb line; a line normal
to the surface of still water.
(d) (Geom., Drawing, etc.) A line parallel to the sides of
a page or sheet, in distinction from a horizontal line
parallel to the top or bottom.
{Vertical plane}.
(a) (Conic Sections) A plane passing through the vertex of
a cone, and through its axis.
(b) (Projections) Any plane which passes through a
vertical line.
(c) (Persp.) The plane passing through the point of sight,
and perpendicular to the ground plane, and also to the
picture.
{Vertical sash}, a sash sliding up and down. Cf. {French
sash}, under 3d {Sash}.
{Vertical steam engine}, a steam engine having the crank
shaft vertically above or below a vertical cylinder.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vertical \Ver"ti*cal\, noun
1. Vertical position; zenith. [R.]
2. (Math.) A vertical line, plane, or circle.
{Prime vertical}, {Prime vertical dial}. See under {Prime},
a.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "vertical":
abrupt, acmatic, apical, arrowlike, azimuth circle, bluff, bold,
bolt upright, breakneck, capital, chief, consummate, dead straight,
direct, downright, erect, even, flat, head, headlong, headmost,
highest, horizontal, in a line, level, lineal, linear, maximal,
maximum, meridian, meridional, normal, orthodiagonal, overmost,
paramount, perpendicular, plumb, plunging, precipitous, preeminent,
rampant, rapid, rearing, rectilineal, rectilinear, right,
right angle, ruler-straight, sharp, sheer, smooth, stand-up,
standing up, steep, straight, straight-cut, straight-front,
straight-side, straight-up, streamlined, summital, supreme,
tip-top, top, topmost, true, ultimate, unbending, unbent, unbowed,
unbroken, uncurved, undeflected, undeviating, undistorted,
uninterrupted, unswerving, unturned, up-and-down, upended, upmost,
uppermost, upraised, upreared, upright, upstanding,
vertical circle, zenithal
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