verticality

n. 垂直性, 垂直状态

发音

UK /ˌvɜːtɪˈkalɪti/
UK /ˌvɜːtəˈkaləti/
US /ˌvɚtəˈkæləti/

词形变化

verticalities 复数 verticalities

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Verticalness; the state or condition of being vertical.

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    1847, Raphael Brandon and Joshua Arthur Brandon, An Analysis of Gothick Architecture, London: P. Richardson, Introduction, pp. 2-3, A tendency to direct verticality, placing itself in, perhaps, violent contrast with the Romanesque horizontalism of the Anglo-Norman, had been in the Early English Gothick, the special characteristick of that beautiful style.

词汇关系

词源

From vertical + -ity; compare French verticalité.

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