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say it: VUR-ti-kuhl
vertical is an adjective and noun meaning "at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line". It carries 6 recorded senses.
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”
relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution
upright in position or posture
“an erect stature”
“erect flower stalks”
“for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression”
“a column still vertical amid the ruins”
“he sat bolt upright”
of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group)
“vertical social mobility”
something that is oriented vertically
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vertical come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.