horizontal

Example Sentences

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Nearly every horizontal surface in the room is coated with dust.

From Literature

These signals appear as very low frequency transients i.e. impulse like transition or settling signals recorded in horizontal ground motion, including both acceleration and tilt.

From Science Daily

There was a horizontal stripe down the shirt, she said.

From BBC

Military analysts call this kind of approach "horizontal escalation".

From Barron's

Shale companies have become proficient at drilling fewer but much longer horizontal wells, which allows them to trim costs and still extract more crude.

From The Wall Street Journal