verticality

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌvɜːtɪˈkalɪti/|/ˌvɜːtəˈkaləti/    美 /ˌvɚtəˈkæləti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Verticalness; the state or condition of being vertical. countable,uncountable
    — For these complicated reasons, although, when the sun is vertical, and darts a perpendicular ray, it is supposed to strike with greatest force; yet, in those countries where it is vertical twice a year, in passing to and from the Tropic of Cancer, the greatest heat is not during the instant of its verticalities, but some weeks after, when it is returning from one Tropic to the other, and its rays oblique.

词形变化

verticalities plural

词源

From vertical + -ity; compare French verticalité.
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