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Vertical vs Anteroposterior - What's the difference?

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Anteroposterior is a coordinate term of vertical.



As adjectives the difference between vertical and anteroposterior

is that vertical is along the direction of a plumbline or along a straight line that includes the center of the Earth while anteroposterior is anterior to posterior; front-to-back.

As a noun vertical

is a vertex or zenith.

vertical

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A vertex or zenith.
  • A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
  • An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
  • A vertical component of a structure.
  • (marketing) A vertical market.
  • We offer specialised accounting software targeting various verticals .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Along the direction of a plumbline or along a straight line that includes the center of the Earth.
  • In a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis.
  • (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
  • Antonyms

    * horizontal

    Derived terms

    * vertical lips * vertically * vertical smile

    anteroposterior

    English

    Alternative forms

    * antero-posterior

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (anatomy) Anterior to posterior; front-to-back.
  • anteroposterior movement
  • * 2002 , Robert Dudley, The Biomechanics of Insect Flight: Form, Function, Evolution (ISBN 0691094918), page 43:
  • also effects the fore-aft (anteroposterior ) wing motions known as promotion and remotion.
  • (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the relation between anterior and posterior.
  • the anteroposterior axis

    Synonyms

    * AP

    Derived terms

    * anteroposteriorly * anteroposteriority * anteroposterior axis

    Coordinate terms

    * posteroanterior * dorsoventral * lateral * mediolateral * proximodistal * vertical

    See also

    * (Anatomical terms of location)