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HORIZONTAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Something that is oriented horizontally
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("horizontal" is a kind of...):
orientation (position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions)
Derivation:
horizontal (parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line
Example:
a horizontal surface
Classified under:
Similar:
crosswise (in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross)
flat (horizontally level)
level (being on a precise horizontal plane)
naiant; swimming (applied to a fish depicted horizontally)
Attribute:
orientation (position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions)
Antonym:
inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)
vertical (at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line)
Derivation:
horizontal (something that is oriented horizontally)
horizontality (the quality of being parallel to the horizon)
Context examples:
How long he sat there he did not know, until, suddenly, across his sightless vision he saw form a long horizontal line of white.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The degree of deviation from a horizontal plane.
(Pitch, NCI Thesaurus)
We created two different designs, horizontal and vertical.
(Tiny swimming 'doughnuts' deliver the biomedical goods, National Science Foundation)
The long axis of a lesion parallels the skin line ('wider-than-tall' or in a horizontal orientation).
(Parallel Lesion, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)
The smallest lobe of the right lung, situated above the oblique fissure and below the horizontal fissure.
(Middle Lobe of the Right Lung, NCI Thesaurus)
A horizontal groove on the lateral surface of the occipital lobe extending from the accessory lateral occipital sulci to the lunate sulcus that separates the superior occipital gyrus from the inferior occipital gyrus.
(Lateral-Occipital Sulcus, NCI Thesaurus)
In large animals it is placed over the 6th rib at the level of a horizontal line drawn through the scapulohumeral articulation on the left side of the thorax.
(Lead Site V4, NCI Thesaurus)
A horizontal groove on the surface of the parietal lobe extending backward from the postcentral sulcus forming the ascending, superior and inferior parietal convolutions.
(Intraparietal Sulcus, NCI Thesaurus)
The superficial layer of the cerebral cortex, containing nerve fibers, neuroglial cells, and occasional horizontal cells of Cajal.
(Molecular Layer of the Cerebral Cortex, NCI Thesaurus)
In addition, there are horizontal named realationships between concepts called Roles, binary relations between concepts that provide a machine-interpretable definition of a concept and the means for discrimination of sibling concepts.
(NCI Thesaurus Concept, NCI Thesaurus)
