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It's an ADA thing ... curb ramps (which are primarily designed for use by wheelchairs) should meet the street at a perpindicular angle so as not to tip a wheelchair when it makes the transition from sidewalk to street - keeping the ramp in line with the sidewalk often can make that transition very difficult. kurisu
“Walk Bike Ride” Plan Would Narrow Nickerson for Bikes « PubliCola 2010
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Also to go from the beautiful shot compositions of Wall-E to the almost constant perpindicular flat plane of UP was horrendous.
Pixar’s Up Wins Best Feature at the 37th Annual Annie Awards | /Film 2010
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The cylindrical form of the tubes also means that the collectors are always perpindicular to the sun, while flat collectors lose more efficiency early in the morning and late in the afternoon unless they are rotated to track the sun see diagram.
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We need to go back to building traditional neighborhoods on grids, with parallel boulevards and perpindicular avenues, sidewalks, parallel parking, storefronts flush with sidewalks, bike lanes, etc.
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We need to go back to building traditional neighborhoods on grids, with parallel boulevards and perpindicular avenues, sidewalks, parallel parking, storefronts flush with sidewalks, bike lanes, etc.
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Confined in perpindicular clifts of 170 feet from the tops of those
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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These walls rise to the hight in many places of 100 feet, are perpindicular, with two regular faces, and are from one to 12 feet thick, each wall retains the Same thickness to the top which it possesses at bottom.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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The city itself is quite simple from above with its perpindicular streets that neatly overlap one another and mountains that tower over it in on both sides seeming to hold everything in.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The street grid in the states consists primarlily of parallel and perpindicular roads that all run in the same direction.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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Think about it, a horizontal line's slope is zero, and to get a perpindicular line, its the negative inverse.
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