When documenting your network infrastructure, you are obtaining both hardware data to document your infrastructure's physical structure and software data to document the existence and configuration of the protocols in use on your network.
1. perpendicular-a straight line at right angles to another line. straight line-a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature; the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
Definition. Parallel lines are two lines that are always the same distance apart and never touch. In order for two lines to be parallel, they must be drawn in the same plane, a perfectly flat surface like a wall or sheet of paper.