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verticality|vɜːtɪˈkælɪtɪ|
[f. vertical a. + -ity. Cf. F. verticalité, It. verticalità.]
1. The fact on the part of the sun or other celestial body of being at the vertex or zenith.
1570J. Dee Math. Pref. 23 To consider..Sterres in their Longitudes, Latitudes, Declinations, and Verticalitie. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xi. 284 For unto them the Sunne is verticall twice a year, making two distinct Summers in the different points of verticality. 1656W. D. tr. Comenius's Gate Lang. Unl. §557 In the Torrid [Zone], by reason of the perpetual verticality of the Sun, there are most vehement heats. 1867E. B. Denison Astronomy without Mathematics i. 37 The heat received anywhere depends on the directness of the sun's rays, or its apparent verticality overhead.
2. The condition or quality of being vertical or perpendicular; vertical position; perpendicularity.
1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 283 Their [i.e. argillites] verticality arising only from the drain of water. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 318 The verticality of the strata in the Isles of Wight and Purbeck. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. xvi. §6 Precipices which produce on the imagination the effect of verticality. 1884G. M. Dawson in Handbk. Dom. Canada 325 Good sections of..Cretaceous rocks..become folded together and lie at all angles up to verticality.
b. Of buildings, or architecture.
1843Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 99/1 The verticality which is designed and usually conveyed by the orders he communicated to his buildings by rustic quoins. 1860W. J. C. Muir Pagan or Christian? 61 The first and most striking feature [of the architecture of the 12th and 13th c.] is the Verticality of composition, as directly opposed to the Horizontality of all anterior structural modes. a1890Lightfoot Hist. Ess. iii. (1895) 146 The leading conception of Gothic architecture,..I mean its verticality, as contrasted with the horizontal lines of the Greek.
c. In weakened sense: Erectness, uprightness.
1838Fraser's Mag. XVII. 687 She walked..in unswerving verticality. |