Crossword clues for verticality
verticality
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Verticality \Ver`ti*cal"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness. [R.]
The different points of the verticality.
--Sir T.
Browne.
Wiktionary
n. verticalness
WordNet
n. position at right angles to the horizon [syn: verticalness, erectness, uprightness]
Usage examples of "verticality".
The final moment of verticality was accompanied by the horns, bells and fireworks of each farm and the OTEC unit.
The disciplinary institutions, the boundaries of the effectivity of their logics, and their striation of social space all constitute instances of verticality or transcendence over the social plane.
Here at last was a dramatic cityscape, built on hills fronting the sea, the very verticality and concentration of its settlement pattern suggesting a richer past and tradition than the flat godowns by the Atlantic at Abidjan and Conakry, which reeked of temporariness, however much larger than Freetown they may have been.
Laszlo's plump eyes shuttered open, focused in random incomprehension upon a brightening verticality, a hardness of a thingness he was quite unable, for several entertainingly disoriented moments, to recognize as the blunt chrome shaft of a simple door lock.