Definition of Horizontal

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Definition of Horizontal
	Horizontal Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface. Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance. Related Definitions: As, Contained, Distance, Horizon, Horizontal, In, Level, Measured, Near, Of, On, Or, Parallel, Pertaining, Plane, Surface, The, To

Horizontal Quotations

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw

When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.
Josef Albers

Life is a horizontal fall.
Jean Cocteau

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.
Ella Maillart

Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity.
Stephen Cambone

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.
Fay Wray

Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.
Charles Francis Richter

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
William Whewell

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.
George Cuvier

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.
Tina Brown

Horizontal Translations

horizontal in Dutch is horizontaal, waterpas, platliggend
horizontal in French is horizontal
horizontal in German is liegend, horizontale, horizontal
horizontal in Spanish is horizontal

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