Difference between Fastigiate and Vertical

What is the difference between Fastigiate and Vertical?

Fastigiate as an adjective is erect and parallel while Vertical as an adjective is along the direction of a plumbline or along a straight line that includes the center of the earth

Fastigiate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Erect and parallel Having closely-bunched erect parallel branches Characterized by a fastigium, a cavity separating the intexine from the sexine near the endoaperture of a colporate pollen grain. Tapering to a point

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A tree or shrub with erect, parallel branches.

Vertical

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: along the direction of a plumbline or along a straight line that includes the center of the EarthIn a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A vertex or zenithA vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicularAn individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.A vertical component of a structure.

Example sentence: The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

We hope you now know whether to use Fastigiate or Vertical in your sentence.

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