vertical

7 definitions • 10 examples

standing or pointing straight up or at an angle of 90° to a horizontal surface or line:

vertical lines/stripes

She looked over the cliff and found she was standing at the edge of a vertical drop.

a vertical line, surface, or position:

In a two-stage operation, the steel structure will be raised to the vertical.

a market consisting of businesses that supply products and services to each other:

Their strategy is to focus on software and services for vertical markets.

tech verticals

standing or pointing straight up or at an angle of 90 to a horizontal surface or line:

Water that had leaked from above formed a vertical line down one wall.

a vertical line, column, etc. goes straight up or down rather than across:

The vertical columns of the table were headed with the months of the year.

used to describe the different ranks of managers and workers in an organization:

The vertical structures of the past are less popular now that decision-making and innovation are encouraged at all operating levels.

If there are more than five levels of management, the organization is said to be high in vertical differentiation.

used to describe the different stages of an industrial or commercial process, and the organizations involved:

vertical agreement/market/restraint Vertical restraints can be used to isolate national markets, particularly where there are price differences between EU Member States.