horizontal section
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A horizontal section of the wood reveals the rings; a vertical section exposes the long lines of vessel elements, giving the familiar grain of the wood.
From Nature ● Apr. 2, 2019
This is illustrated by the horizontal section of the best-fit curve where the relationship between reported income and consumption is absent.
From Forbes ● Aug. 27, 2014
As its speed decreased, centrifugal force would lessen, and gravity would pull it in a slowly descending spiral toward the lower, more horizontal section.
From Time Magazine Archive
Figs. 174-176.—Transverse section, plan, and horizontal section of a square, single-ramped, Chaldæan Temple.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
It held whatever clothes were put over it in the shape of a church bell or a horizontal section of a balloon.
From The Women of the Confederacy by J. L. Underwood
