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
By length is not meant necessarily the length of a horizontal section, but of one at right angles to the downward axis.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Hoover, Herbert
The battlement, then, in horizontal section, had this form , instead of the usual series of straight merlons.
From Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. by Dewing, H. B.
