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单词 vertical
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verticaladjective

uk/ˈvɜː.tɪ.kəl/us/ˈvɝː.t̬ə.kəl/

C1 standing or pointing straight up or at an angle of 90° to a horizontal surface or line:

vertical lines/stripes
She looked over the cliff and found she was standing at the edge of a vertical drop.
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horizontal adjective

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  • Carefully tighten the clamp until it firmly supports the pipette in a vertical position.
  • In tin mining today, workers excavate tunnels horizontally from a vertical shaft.
  • Rotate it slowly from the horizontal into a vertical position.
  • Plot distance on the vertical Y-axis against time on the horizontal X-axis.
  • This vertical section of the soil shows four basic soil layers.

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Geometry: describing angles, lines & orientations

  • acute
  • alternate angle
  • angle of incidence
  • antinode
  • asymptote
  • asymptotic
  • axial
  • erect
  • horizontal
  • oblique
  • parallel
  • plumb
  • prominent
  • reflection
  • secant
  • slant
  • supplementary angle
  • tangent
  • tangential
  • transversal

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Up and upward
vertically
adverb uk/ˈvɜː.tɪ.kəl.i/us/ˈvɝː.t̬ə.kəl.i/

A wall of rock towered vertically up on one side of the narrow mountain path.

verticalnoun [ C usually singular ]

uk/ˈvɜː.tɪ.kəl/us/ˈvɝː.t̬ə.kəl/

a vertical line, surface, or position:

In a two-stage operation, the steel structure will be raised to the vertical.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Geometry: describing angles, lines & orientations

  • acute
  • alternate angle
  • angle of incidence
  • antinode
  • asymptote
  • asymptotic
  • axial
  • erect
  • horizontal
  • oblique
  • parallel
  • plumb
  • prominent
  • reflection
  • secant
  • slant
  • supplementary angle
  • tangent
  • tangential
  • transversal

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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Up and upward
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