Plumbline (disambiguation)

A plumbline is a string with a lead (Latin plumbum) weight or plumb-bob, used to provide a vertical reference line.

It may also refer to:

The Plumbline, a joke newspaper produced by the McMaster Engineering Society
In geodesy, a plumbline means a line orthogonal to the geoid

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