vertical

Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.

Adjective

  1. Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.
    • vertical lines
    • The Zebra moray is chocolate black with vertical white stripes. - 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 72:

    Synonyms: sheer up-and-down

  2. In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
  3. In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
  4. Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
  5. Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
  6. Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.

    Synonyms: harmonic

    Antonyms: horizontal

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French vertical, from Late Latin verticālis.

Forms

more vertical most vertical vertic

Antonyms

horizontal

Derived

double vertical line nonvertical postvertical subvertical vertical alignment vertical angle vertical apostrophe vertical bar vertical blinds vertical circle vertical deflection vertical drinking vertical ellipsis vertical escalation vertical farming vertical flute vertical garden vertical integration vertical interval verticalism verticalize vertical jump vertical jump test vertical kampong

Noun

  1. A vertex or zenith.
  2. A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
  3. An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
  4. A vertical component of a structure.
  5. A vertical market.
    • We offer specialised accounting software targeting various verticals.
    • As Barclay Capital's Douglas Anmuth wrote in a report on Friday morning, Google's "core search growth" is slowing, so there may now be a "greater urgency in pursuing specific verticals". So, what other specialised areas...
  6. A command structure for exertion of political power.
    • Russian opposition outlet Vazhnye Istorii reported on August 19 that Russian President Vladimir Putin's reaction to the "Kursk situation" has exposed certain shifts within the Kremlin's power vertical, many of which...
  7. A segment in a news publication that contains in-depth pieces focused on a specific topic.
    • Near-synonym: column

    Synonyms: column

Forms

verticals vertic