horizontal

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: hor=i=zon=tal

CIDE DICTIONARY

horizontal, a. [Cf. F. horizontal.].

•  Pertaining to, or near, the horizon.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface.  [1913 Webster]
•  Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance.  [1913 Webster]

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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

horizontal, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 a parallel to the plane of the horizon, at right angles to the vertical (horizontal plane). b (of machinery etc.) having its parts working in a horizontal direction.
2 a combining firms engaged in the same stage of production (horizontal integration). b involving social groups of equal status etc.
3 of or at the horizon.
--n. a horizontal line, plane, etc.

Derivative

horizontality n. horizontally adv. horizontalness n.

Etymology

F horizontal or mod.L horizontalis (as HORIZON)

THESAURUS

horizontal

arrowlike, billiard table, bowling green, dead flat, dead level, dead straight, direct, earth, esplanade, even, flat, flatland, flattened, floor, flush, ground, homaloid, homaloidal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, in a line, ledge, level, level line, level plane, lineal, linear, mean sea level, parterre, plain, plane, platform, prairie, prone, rectilineal, rectilinear, right, rolled, ruler-straight, sea level, sea of grass, smooth, smoothed out, smoothened, squashed, squashed flat, steppe, straight, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, streamlined, supine, table, tabloid, tabular, terrace, trodden, trodden flat, true, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, uncurved, undeflected, undeviating, undistorted, uninterrupted, unswerving, unturned, upright, vertical, water level

ROGET THESAURUS

horizontal

Horizontality

N horizontality, flatness, level, plane, stratum, dead level, dead flat, level plane, recumbency, lying down, reclination, decumbence, decumbency, discumbency, proneness, accubation, supination, resupination, prostration, azimuth, plain, floor, platform, bowling green, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, billiard table, terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre, table land, plateau, ledge, butte, mesa (plain), level, spirit level, horizontal, level, even, plane, flat, flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green, alluvial, calm, calm as a mill pond, smooth, smooth as glass, recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent, lying, prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant, horizontally, on one's back, on all fours, on its beam ends.