HORIZONTALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horizontally mean? 

• HORIZONTALLY (adverb)
  The adverb HORIZONTALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a horizontal direction

  Familiarity information: HORIZONTALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORIZONTALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a horizontal direction

Context example:

a gallery quite often is added to make use of space vertically as well as horizontally

Pertainym:

horizontal (parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line)

 Context examples 

Transmitted horizontally through the lactating mammary gland and vertically through the germline.

(Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

The fifth layer of the cerebral cortex, composed of the largest pyramidal cells (Martinotti's cells and Betz's cells), and traversed by a layer of horizontally arranged fibers.

(Ganglionic Layer of the Cerebral Cortex, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus in the family retroviridae consisting of exogenous horizontally transmitted viruses found in mammals; associated with B or T cell leukemia/lymphoma with a long latency.

(Deltaretrovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

The dark band running horizontally across the center corresponds to the galactic plane.

(Planck Takes Magnetic Fingerprint of Our Galaxy, JPL/NASA)

It forms the anterior part of the labyrinth, is conical, and is placed almost horizontally anterior to the vestibule.

(Cochlea, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The fourth layer of the cerebral cortex, composed of many densely packed granule cells with short axons and some small pyramidal cells, and traversed by a stria of horizontally arranged fibers.

(Internal Granular Layer of the Cerebral Cortex, NCI Thesaurus)

A small fusiform neuroglial cell arranged horizontally in the molecular layer of the cerebral cortex.

(Horizontal Cell of Cajal, NCI Thesaurus)

It is hooped round with a hollow cylinder of adamant, four feet yards in diameter, placed horizontally, and supported by eight adamantine feet, each six yards high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He lifted up the sable waves of hair which lay horizontally over his brow, and showed a solid enough mass of intellectual organs, but an abrupt deficiency where the suave sign of benevolence should have risen.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)