Vertical

(noun.) something that is oriented vertically.

(adj.) of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group); 'vertical social mobility' .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution .

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• The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Her engines are of the twin screw, vertical triple expansion direct acting inverted cylinder type. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• If you stare at a checkerboard you can see it as black on red, or red on black, as series of horizontal, vertical or diagonal steps which recede or protrude. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The true definition of the bicycle is a two-wheeled vehicle, with one wheel in front and the other in the rear, and both in the same vertical plane. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The two ends of the wire were connected with an electro-magnet fastened to a vertical wooden frame. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• About every fifteenth address plate in a drawer was equipped with a vertical, subdividing tab--numerical, alphabetical or geographical as the case might require. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The new operating room contained sixteen vertical engines with a capacity each of over 5,000 horse-power. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The roadway hangs from these cables, suspended by 624 vertical rods. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Blowing engines are of horizontal compound and horizontal vertical compound types, capable of blowing a pressure of 25 pounds of air. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• One of the latest forms of such a collector has for its essential principle the vertical or rotatory air current, which it is claimed moves and precipitates the finest particles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The positive or nickel plate (Fig. 6) is seen to consist of two rows of round rods or pencils, thirty in number, held in a vertical position by a steel support-frame. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The engine here employed was the Catch Me Who Can, and had a vertical cylinder and piston, without the toothed gear wheels shown in the illustration. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A vertical shaft D is rotated constantly by a band on pulley _d_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The great lantern, Fig. 45, is carried by a vertical shaft, which terminates at its lower end in a hollow drum, which latter floats in a bath of mercury. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The verticals of these letters were originally five holes high. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The verticals of the letters were perforated only four holes high, and the four rollers were arranged in pairs, one pair being slightly in advance of the other. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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