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horizontal
1. measured or contained in a plane parallel to that of the horizon
2. Economics relating to identical stages of commercial activity
horizontal [‚här·ə′zänt·əl]
(science and technology)
Being in a plane perpendicular to the gravitational field, that is, perpendicular to a plumb line, at a given point on the earth's surface.
horizontal
At right angles to the direction of gravity; on the level; parallel to the horizon; neither vertical nor inclined.
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When a dotted line reaches one of the horizontal lines, and is there marked by a small numbered letter, a sufficient amount of variation is supposed to have been accumulated to have formed a fairly well-marked variety, such as would be thought worthy of record in a systematic work.
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The horizontal diameter was fifty feet, and the vertical diameter seventy-five feet.
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But he rode with a sensitive "loose curb," and quickly, but not too quickly, he shifted the angles of his wing-tips, depressed the front horizontal rudder, and swung over the rear vertical rudder to meet the tilting thrust of the wind.
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