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Meaning of vertical in English

vertical
adjective
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/ˈvɜː.tɪ.kəl/ us
/ˈvɝː.t̬ə.kəl/
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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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vertical
noun [ C usually singular ]
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/ˈvɜː.tɪ.kəl/ us
/ˈvɝː.t̬ə.kəl/

vertical noun [C usually singular] (LINE)

a vertical line, surface, or position:
In a two-stage operation, the steel structure will be raised to the vertical.
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vertical noun [C usually singular] (BUSINESS)

business   specialized
(also vertical market, uk/ˌvɜː.tɪ.kəl ˈmɑː.kɪt/ us/ˌvɝː.t̬ə.kəl ˈmɑːr.kɪt/)
a market consisting of businesses that supply products and services to each other:
Their strategy is to focus on software and services for vertical markets.
tech verticals
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(Definition of vertical from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

vertical | American Dictionary

vertical
adjective
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/ˈvɜr·t̬ɪ·kəl/
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standing or pointing straight up or at an angle of 90 to a horizontal surface or line:
Water that had leaked from above formed a vertical line down one wall.
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vertical | Business English

vertical
adjective
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/ˈvɜːtɪkəl/ us
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GRAPHS & CHARTS
a vertical line, column, etc. goes straight up or down rather than across:
The vertical columns of the table were headed with the months of the year.
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used to describe the different ranks of managers and workers in an organization:
The vertical structures of the past are less popular now that decision-making and innovation are encouraged at all operating levels.
If there are more than five levels of management, the organization is said to be high in vertical differentiation.
COMMERCE, FINANCE
used to describe the different stages of an industrial or commercial process, and the organizations involved:
vertical agreement/market/restraint Vertical restraints can be used to isolate national markets, particularly where there are price differences between EU Member States.

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(Definition of vertical from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of vertical

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Allowing for parallax, the weaving pattern above needs wider gaps either side of the verticals.
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In fact, the place of the edges in the picture imposes the verticals they are associated to.
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An erudite interplay of verticals and horizontals creates a fairly remarkable harmony.
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Longer verticals may have served for higher platforms, for multi-storied structures, or for carrying a rail above platform level.
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Much play is made of common tones between the layers to control resultant verticals between them; scrupulous care is thereby taken to ensure that they relate satisfactorily to each other.
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In the later work the curving rhythms have given way to a system of verticals and horizontals, broken only by the forty-five degree diagonals of roof-tops and trees.
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Owing to their long-term, stable transmission from generation to generation (vertical transmission), these cytoplasmic genomes have been viewed as analogs to organelles.
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The height of each bar is read from the vertical axis.
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In limestone these lines are usually vertical, and can be used to define the side boundaries of the potential block.
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A vertical cylinder was obtained by cutting a circular channel around the block after the top was leveled.
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Then a horizontal top plane and some form of vertical plane or step are cut.
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They are quite deep, with vertical faces as high as thirty meters.
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As for vertical measurements, presumably the stage platform and the first platform levels of the tiring houses were at the same height.
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Vertical joints above and below a rail do not align.
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A table may be formed comparing vertical and horizontal dimensions as ratios.
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豎直的, 垂直的, 立式的…
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கிடைமட்ட மேற்பரப்பு அல்லது கோட்டுக்கு நேராக அல்லது 90° கோணத்தில் நிற்பது அல்லது சுட்டிக்காட்டுவது…
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लंबवत, क्षैतिज सतह या रेखा पर 90° के कोण पर सीधे खड़े या इंगित…
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