Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
PERPENDICULAR
perpendicular
(adjective) so steep as to be nearly veritcal; “the great perpendicular face of the cliff”
vertical, perpendicular
(adjective) at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; “a vertical camera angle”; “the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab”; “measure the perpendicular height”
perpendicular
(adjective) intersecting at or forming right angles; “the axes are perpendicular to each other”
perpendicular
(noun) an extremely steep face
perpendicular, perpendicular style, English-Gothic, English-Gothic architecture
(noun) a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
perpendicular
(noun) a straight line at right angles to another line
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
perpendicular (comparative more perpendicular, superlative most perpendicular)
(geometry) at or forming a right angle (to something).
Synonyms: normal, orthogonal
Exactly upright; extending in a straight line toward the centre of the earth, etc.
Independent of or irrelevant to each other; orthogonal.
Noun
perpendicular (plural perpendiculars)
(geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
Adjective
Perpendicular (comparative more Perpendicular, superlative most Perpendicular)
(architecture) Of a style of English Gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, marked by stiff and rectilinear lines, mostly vertical window-tracery, depressed or four-centre arch, fan-tracery vaulting, and panelled walls.
Source: Wiktionary
Per`pen*dic"u*lar, a. Etym: [L. perpendicularis, perpendicularius: cf. F. perpendiculaire. See Perpendicle, Pension.]
1. Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style (Arch.), a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early part of the 16th; -- probably so called from the vertical style of its window mullions.
Per`pen*dic"u*lar, n.
1. A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
22 September 2024
SPRINGBOARD
(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
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