🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

不垂直的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bù chuízhí de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Non-perpendicular/ˌnɒnˌpɜːpənˈdɪkjʊlə/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这两条线是不垂直的。"

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As adjective
  1. 1

    Meeting or intersecting at an angle other than a right angle (90 degrees).

    "The two non-perpendicular walls intersected at an acute angle of sixty degrees."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term is a compound formed from the English prefix 'non-' (derived from Latin 'nōn', meaning 'not') and 'perpendicular' (originating from Latin 'perpendicularis', from 'perpendiculum' meaning a plumb line). It emerged in modern mathematical and geometrical discourse to describe lines, planes, or vectors that do not meet at a right angle.

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