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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French vertical, from Late Latin verticālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vertical (comparative more vertical, superlative most 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.
vertical lines
- In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
- In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
- (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
- (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
- (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.
- Synonym: harmonic
- Antonym: horizontal
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Translations
being perpendicular to horizontal
- Arabic: عَمُودِيّ (ar) (ʕamūdiyy), رَأْسِيّ (raʔsiyy)
- Armenian: ուղղահայաց (hy) (uġġahayacʻ)
- Assamese: থিয় (thio)
- Asturian: vertical (ast)
- Azerbaijani: şaquli (az)
- Belarusian: вертыка́льны (vjertykálʹny), проставе́сны (prostavjésny)
- Bengali: খাড়া (bn) (khaṛa)
- Bulgarian: вертика́лен (bg) (vertikálen), отвесен (bg) (otvesen)
- Catalan: vertical (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 豎的/竖的 (zh) (shù de), 垂直 (zh) (chuízhí), 直立 (zh) (zhílì)
- Czech: svislý (cs), vertikální (cs)
- Danish: lodret (da)
- Dutch: verticaal (nl)
- Esperanto: vertikala
- Estonian: vertikaal
- Finnish: pystysuora (fi), pystysuuntainen (fi), pysty (fi)
- French: vertical (fr)
- Galician: vertical (gl)
- Georgian: შვეული (šveuli), ვერტიკალური (verṭiḳaluri)
- German: vertikal (de), senkrecht (de)
- Greek: κατακόρυφος (el) (katakóryfos), κάθετος (el) (káthetos)
- Hebrew: אֲנָכִי (he) (anakhí)
- Hindi: लंबवत् (lambvat), ऊर्ध्वाधर (ūrdhvādhar)
- Hungarian: függőleges (hu), vertikális (hu)
- Icelandic: lóðrétt
- Italian: verticale (it)
- Japanese: 垂直の (ja) (すいちょくの, suichoku no), 縦の (ja) (たての, tate no), 直立の (ja) (ちょくりつの, chokuritsu no)
- Korean: 수직의 (ko) (sujigui)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ئەستوونی (estûnî)
- Northern Kurdish: stûnî (ku) f
- Latvian: vertikāls
- Limburgish:
- Eupen: värtikaal
- Lithuanian: vertikalus
- Macedonian: вертикален (vertikalen)
- Maori: poutū, torotika, tūmāhoehoe, tūmārōhoehoe (refers specifically to the overhead sun), tūmārōhoehoe (refers specifically to the overhead sun), tūhoehoe (refers specifically to the overhead sun)
- Moore: selle, tĩidga
- Old English: upriht
- Persian: ایستاده (fa) (istâde), عمودی (fa) ('amudi), راست (fa) (râst), قائم (fa) (qâ'em)
- Polish: pionowy (pl), wertykalny (pl)
- Portuguese: vertical (pt)
- Romanian: vertical (ro)
- Russian: вертика́льный (ru) (vertikálʹnyj), отве́сный (ru) (otvésnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: dìreach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вертикалан, усправан
- Roman: vertikalan (sh), uspravan (sh)
- Slovak: vertikálny (sk), kolmý
- Slovene: navpičen (sl), vertikalen
- Spanish: vertical (es)
- Swedish: lodrät (sv) c, vertikal (sv) c
- Tagalog: tayo (tl)
- Thai: ตั้งฉาก (tângchàk), ตั้งตรง (tângtrōng), ตรงดิ่ง (trōngdìng)
- Turkish: dikey (tr)
- Ukrainian: вертика́льний (vertykálʹnyj), прямови́сний (prjamovýsnyj), дозе́мний (dozémnyj)
- Welsh: fertigol (cy)
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Noun
vertical (plural verticals)
- A vertex or zenith.
- A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
- An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
- A vertical component of a structure.
- (marketing) A vertical market.
We offer specialised accounting software targeting various verticals.
2010 July 5, Joseph Tartakoff, “What search verticals will Google target next?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: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 could Google target?
Further reading
- “vertical”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Asturian
Etymology
From Late Latin verticālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beɾtiˈkal/,
- Rhymes: -al
- Hyphenation: ver‧ti‧cal
Adjective
vertical (epicene, plural verticales)
- vertical
Antonyms
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin verticālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vertical m or f (masculine and feminine plural verticals)
- vertical
- Antonym: horitzontal
Derived terms
French
Etymology
From Late Latin verticālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vertical (feminine verticale, masculine plural verticaux, feminine plural verticales)
- vertical
Derived terms
Further reading
Galician
Etymology
From Late Latin verticālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beɾtiˈkal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Hyphenation: ver‧ti‧cal
Adjective
vertical m or f (plural verticais)
- vertical
- Antonym: horizontal
Derived terms
Ladin
Etymology
From Late Latin verticālis.
Adjective
vertical m (feminine singular verticala, masculine plural verticai, feminine plural verticales)
- vertical
Piedmontese
Etymology
From Late Latin verticālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vertical
- vertical
Portuguese
Etymology
From Late Latin verticālis.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: ver‧ti‧cal
Adjective
vertical m or f (plural verticais, not comparable)
- vertical
- Antonym: horizontal
Derived terms
Romanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French vertical.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vertiˈkal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Hyphenation: ver‧ti‧cal
Adjective
vertical m or n (feminine singular verticală, masculine plural verticali, feminine and neuter plural verticale)
- vertical
Declension
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin verticālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beɾtiˈkal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: ver‧ti‧cal
Adjective
vertical m or f (masculine and feminine plural verticales)
- vertical
- portrait (a print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.; in smartphones)
Antonyms
Derived terms
Further reading