Vertical

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  • adjective. Being or situated at right angles to the horizon; upright.
  • adjective. Situated at the vertex or highest point; directly overhead.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the vertex of the head.
  • adjective. Relating to or involving all stages from production to sale.
  • adjective. Relating to or composed of elements at different levels, as of society.
  • adjective. Of or relating to transmission of a disease or condition from parent to offspring, either through genetic inheritance or through circumstances occurring between conception and birth.
  • noun. Something vertical, as a line, plane, or circle.
  • noun. A vertical position.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or relating to the vertex; situated at the vertex, apex, or highest point; placed in the zenith, or point in the heavens directly overhead; figuratively, occupying the highest place.
  • Specifically, being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
  • In medicine, of or relating to the vertex, or crown of the head.
  • In zoology and anatomy: Pertaining to or placed on the vertex, or crown of the head; sincipital; coronal: as, vertical stemmata of an insect; vertical eyes of a fish; the vertical crest of some birds is horizontal when not erected.
  • Placed or directed upward or downward; upright or downright; being at right angles with an (actual or assumed) horizon.
  • See circle.
  • In conic sections, a plane passing through the vertex of a cone and through its axis.
  • In perspective, a plane perpendicular to the geometrical plane, passing through the eye, and cutting the perspective plane at right angles.
  • noun. A vertical circle, plane, or line.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Vertical position; zenith.
  • noun. A vertical line, plane, or circle.
  • noun. See under Prime, a.
  • noun. undefined
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.
  • adjective. Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. such anthers as stand erect at the top of the filaments.
  • adjective. an azimuth circle. See under Azimuth.
  • adjective. an upright drill. See under Upright.
  • adjective. the fire, as of mortars, at high angles of elevation.
  • adjective. leaves which present their edges to the earth and the sky, and their faces to the horizon, as in the Australian species of Eucalyptus.
  • adjective. a graduated arc attached to an instrument, as a theodolite, for measuring vertical angles.
  • adjective. A line parallel to the sides of a page or sheet, in distinction from a horizontal line parallel to the top or bottom.
  • adjective. The plane passing through the point of sight, and perpendicular to the ground plane, and also to the picture.
  • adjective. a sash sliding up and down. Cf. French sash, under 3d Sash.
  • adjective. a steam engine having the crank shaft vertically above or below a vertical cylinder.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A vertex or zenith.
  • noun. A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
  • noun. An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
  • noun. A vertical component of a structure.
  • adjective. Along the direction of a plumbline or along a straight line that includes the center of the Earth.
  • adjective. In a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. something that is oriented vertically
  • adjective. upright in position or posture
  • noun. a vertical structural member as a post or stake
  • adjective. relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution
  • adjective. of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group)
  • adjective. at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
  • Word Usage
    "I can't seem to rotate the label vertical, it appears to reference the objects rotation."
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