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

In the Bugaba cemetery Mr. Merritt found two well marked varieties, the oval and the quadrangular, reference being had to the horizontal section.

From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by Holmes, William Henry

One vase-painting gives a bird’s-eye view, in horizontal section, of the interior of an oven full of jugs of various forms.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various