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Two lines, vectors, planes, etc., are said to be perpendicular if they meet at a right angle. In 
, two vectors 
and 
are perpendicular if their dot product
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(1) |
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In 
, a line withslope 
is perpendicular to a line with slope 
. Perpendicular objects are sometimes said to be "orthogonal."
In the above figure, the line segment 
is perpendicular to the line segment 
. This relationship is commonly denoted with a small square at the vertex where perpendicular objects meet, as shown above, and is denoted 
.
Two trilinear lines
are perpendicular if
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(4) |
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(Kimberling 1998, p. 29).
See also
Cathetus, Gnomon, Normal Vector, Orthogonal Lines, Orthogonal Vectors, Parallel,Perpendicular Bisector, Perpendicular Foot, Perpendicular Vector, Right Angle Explore this topic in the MathWorld classroom
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References
Kern, W. F. and Bland, J. R. Solid Mensuration with Proofs, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, p. 10, 1948.Kimberling, C. "Triangle Centers and Central Triangles." Congr. Numer. 129, 1-295, 1998.
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