Meaning of vertical In English

• 0 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.

• 1 a vertical line, surface, or position:

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

• 2 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

• 3 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.

• 4 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.

• 5 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.

• 6 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.