'Perpendicular style' definitions:
Definition of 'perpendicular style'
From: WordNet
noun
A Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting [syn: perpendicular, perpendicular style, English-Gothic, English-Gothic architecture]
Definition of 'Perpendicular style'
From: GCIDE
- Perpendicular \Per`pen*dic"u*lar\, a. [L. perpendicularis, perpendicularius: cf. F. perpendiculaire. See Perpendicle, Pension.]
- 1. Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Geom.) At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. [1913 Webster]
- Perpendicular style (Arch.), a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early part of the 16th; -- probably so called from the vertical style of its window mullions. [1913 Webster]