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# perpendicularly

«perpendicularly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Straight up and down, or at a right angle (a square…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (from the adjective perpendicular)

### meaning for a pupil

Straight up and down, or at a right angle (a square corner) to a line or surface. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perpendicularly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in a tale, oars held straight out from the boat's side, ready to go into the water

### examples

- The heroes had their oars held perpendicularly, ready to let fall into the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perpendicularly/#x1)

### note

in maths, perpendicular lines meet at a right angle (90 degrees); this gives a shape, not a count, so it changes no amount

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «perpendicularly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perpendicularly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.