HORIZONTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horizontal mean? 

• HORIZONTAL (noun)
  The noun HORIZONTAL has 1 sense:

1. something that is oriented horizontally

  Familiarity information: HORIZONTAL used as a noun is very rare.

• HORIZONTAL (adjective)
  The adjective HORIZONTAL has 1 sense:

1. parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line

  Familiarity information: HORIZONTAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORIZONTAL (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)

• HORIZONTAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line

Context example:

a horizontal surface

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 

It consists of four parts: a horizontal or cribriform plate; a perpendicular plate; and two lateral masses or labyrinths.

(Ethmoid Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

For projection radiography, the horizontal physical distance measured at the front plane of an Image Receptor housing between the center of each pixel.

(Horizontal Pixel Spacing, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

A disorder characterized by vertical or horizontal ridges on the nails.

(Nail Ridging, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Horizontal ridges may be associated with metabolic disorders and malnutrition.

(Nail Ridging, NCI Thesaurus)

The stromal invasion has a maximum depth of 3.00 mm and a horizontal spread of 7.00 mm or less; there is no FIGO stage IA1 for endometrial cancer.

(FIGO Stage IA1, NCI Thesaurus)

This and any plane parallel to it can be called a horizontal long axis view.

(Horizontal Long Axis of Heart, NCI Thesaurus)

I knew my traveller with his broad and jetty eyebrows; his square forehead, made squarer by the horizontal sweep of his black hair.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The stromal invasion is more than 3.00 mm but no more than 5.00 mm with a horizontal spread of 7.00 mm or less; there is no FIGO stage A2 for endometrial cancer.

(FIGO Stage IA2, NCI Thesaurus)

The horizontal distance between the centers of adjacent pixels in an image.

(Horizontal Pixel Spacing, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is motile by flagella and mediates the horizontal gene transfer of its Ti plasmid to infect plants.

(Agrobacterium tumefaciens, NCI Thesaurus)