Vertical may refer to:
- Vertical direction, the direction aligned with the direction of the force of gravity, as materialized with a plumb line
- Vertical (angles), a pair of angles sharing the same vertex and bounded by the same pair of lines but are opposite to each other
- Vertical (company), a publishing company based in New York City
- Vertical (music), a musical interval where the two notes sound simultaneously
- Vertical Inc, a Japanese novel and manga company founded in 2001 by Hiroki Sakai
- Vertical market, a group of similar businesses and customers which engage in trade based on specific and specialized needs
- Vertical (novel), a 2010 novel and sequel to Sideways written by Rex Pickett
- Vertical (movie), a 1967 Soviet movie starring Vladimir Vysotsky
- Vertical, a type of wine tasting in which different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery are tasted
Famous quotes containing the word vertical:
“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;
That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to God’s throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness,
In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute Heavens.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“In bourgeois society, the French and the industrial revolution transformed the authorization of political space. The political revolution put an end to the formalized hierarchy of the ancien regimé.... Concurrently, the industrial revolution subverted the social hierarchy upon which the old political space was based. It transformed the experience of society from one of vertical hierarchy to one of horizontal class stratification.”
—Donald M. Lowe, U.S. historian, educator. History of Bourgeois Perception, ch. 4, University of Chicago Press (1982)