Crossword clues for horizontal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horizontal \Hor`i*zon"tal\, a. [Cf. F. horizontal.]
Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. ``Horizontal misty air.''
--Milton.Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface.
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Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance.
Horizontal drill, a drilling machine having a horizontal drill spindle.
Horizontal engine, one the piston of which works horizontally.
Horizontal fire (Mil.), the fire of ordnance and small arms at point-blank range or at low angles of elevation.
Horizontal force (Physics), the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic force.
Horizontal line (Descriptive Geometry & Drawing), a constructive line, either drawn or imagined, which passes through the point of sight, and is the chief line in the projection upon which all verticals are fixed, and upon which all vanishing points are found.
Horizontal parallax. See under Parallax.
Horizontal plane (Descriptive Geometry), a plane parallel to the horizon, upon which it is assumed that objects are projected. See Projection. It is upon the horizontal plane that the ground plan of the buildings is supposed to be drawn.
Horizontal projection, a projection made on a plane parallel to the horizon.
Horizontal range (Gunnery), the distance in a horizontal plane to which a gun will throw a projectile.
Horizontal water wheel, a water wheel in which the axis is vertical, the buckets or floats revolving in a horizontal plane, as in most turbines.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "relating to or near the horizon," from French horizontal, from Latin horizontem (see horizon). Meaning "flat" (i.e., "parallel to the horizon") is from 1630s. Related: horizontally.
Wiktionary
a. 1 perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat. 2 (context marketing English) Relating to horizontal markets. 3 (context archaic English) Pertaining to the horizon. n. 1 A horizontal component of a structure. 2 (context geology English) horizon
WordNet
n. something that is oriented horizontally
Wikipedia
Horizontal may refer to:
- Horizontal plane, in astronomy, geography, geometry and other sciences and contexts
- Horizontal coordinate system, in astronomy
- Horizontalism, in monetary circuit theory
- Horizontalism, in sociology
- Horizontal market, in microeconomics
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Horizontal (album), a 1968 album by the Bee Gees
- "Horizontal" (song)" is a 1968 song by the Bee Gees
Horizontal is the fourth album by the Bee Gees, and the second to receive an international release. The LP was released in early 1968, and included the international hit singles " Massachusetts" and " World". On 5 February 2007, Reprise Records reissued Horizontal with both stereo and mono mixes on one disc and a bonus disc of unreleased songs, non-album tracks, and alternate takes. The album was released in Polydor in many countries and on Atco only in the US and Canada. " And the Sun Will Shine" (backed by " Really and Sincerely") was released as a single only in France. The influences displayed on the album range from The Beatles to baroque pop.
Usage examples of "horizontal".
On the abutment towers the chains are connected by horizontal links, carried on rockers, to anchor ties.
On the other hand, a girder imposes only a vertical load on its piers and abutments, and not a horizontal thrust, as in the case of an arch or suspension chain.
Just a little upthrust of the tail-elevators and ailerons brought them again into the horizontal in a huge swoop.
He pushed Catardi, Schultz, and Alameda into the opening and rested them against the nearly horizontal bulkheads of the command module between the panels.
Springs, alembics, coils of copper tubing, buckled sheets of metal, gear systems both rack-and-pinion and epicyclic, pendulums, levers, cams, cranks, differentials, bearings, pulleys, assorted tools, and stone jars containing alkahest and corrosive substances crowded every horizontal surface.
Another normal alphabet, which merely repeats the initial letters of the horizontal ciphertext alphabets, runs down the left side.
Horizontal advertising-refers to advertising by a trade association or group of companies within the same industry-designed to promote the entire industry, thereby benefiting all who participate.
To his disgust, what popped into his head was not that old primeval male desire for a little horizontal boogaloo with a brand-new partner.
Jago, one of the Azores, a horizontal, calcareous stratum occurs, containing shells of recent marine species, covered by a great sheet of basalt eighty feet thick.
Perhaps in a while--a month or two--a certain shoot in the topmost branch would take the hint and the uneven flow of moisture up through the cambium layer would nudge it away from that upward reach and persuade it to continue the horizontal passage.
A late-model Tolgren, 5mm prefragmented bullets, caseless ammunition and a 30-round horizontal cassette magazine above the barrel.
Two planes, crossing each other at a right angle, coinciding with the vertical and horizontal central sections, have been found better than a solid block.
In a three-day marathon of cryptanalysis, Manly, aided by Miss Rickert, perceived the pattern of this 12-step official transposition cipher, with its multiple horizontal shiftings of three- and four-letter plaintext groups ripped apart by a final vertical transcription.
Occasionally, as we floated down, vineyards were visible with the vines trained on horizontal trellises, or bamboo rails, often forty feet long, nailed horizontally on cryptomeria to a height of twenty feet, on which small sheaves of barley were placed astride to dry till the frame was full More forest, more dreams, then the forest and the abundant vegetation altogether disappeared, the river opened out among low lands and banks of shingle and sand, and by three we were on the outskirts of Niigata, whose low houses,--with rows of stones upon their roofs, spread over a stretch of sand, beyond which is a sandy roll with some clumps of firs.
The expansive beings which are thus created, monsters of universality, form doubles along vertical or horizontal axes, where the break, a sign of their essential dichotomy, is always signified.