Horizontal
adjective
Something that is flat and level, going across from side to side, not up and down.
The horizon is a horizontal line where earth appears to meet the sky.
Often appears as...
- horizontal axis
- horizontal line
adjective
Refering to companies that operate in the same industry but at different stages of the supply chain.
Many businesses aim to implement horizontal integration to expand and strengthen their market position.
Often appears as...
- horizontal integration
- horizontal merger
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Formal
Technical
adjective
In computing, it refers to arranging things or spread out from left to right on a screen or page, rather than top to bottom.
The text on the webpage is arranged in a horizontal manner to improve readability.
Often appears as...
- horizontal scrolling
- horizontal layout
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Technical
adjective
In photography and film, it's when images or scenes are captured in a wide, side to side format.
Many landscape photographs are shot in a horizontal frame to capture wider view.
Often appears as...
- horizontal shot
- horizontal composition
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Technical
adjective
Something that is flat and level, going across from side to side, not up and down.
The horizon is a horizontal line where earth appears to meet the sky.
Often appears as...
- horizontal axis
- horizontal line
adjective
Refering to companies that operate in the same industry but at different stages of the supply chain.
Many businesses aim to implement horizontal integration to expand and strengthen their market position.
Often appears as...
- horizontal integration
- horizontal merger
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
adjective
In computing, it refers to arranging things or spread out from left to right on a screen or page, rather than top to bottom.
The text on the webpage is arranged in a horizontal manner to improve readability.
Often appears as...
- horizontal scrolling
- horizontal layout
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
In photography and film, it's when images or scenes are captured in a wide, side to side format.
Many landscape photographs are shot in a horizontal frame to capture wider view.
Often appears as...
- horizontal shot
- horizontal composition
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine a flat surface or line running left to right, like lying down.
She drew a horizontal line on the paper.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Vertical
Remember that 'horizontal' is the opposite of 'vertical', which goes up and down.
The shelves were installed horizontally, not vertically.
Pro Tip 3/3Aligned with Horizon
Think of lying back to gaze at the sky; the line where earth meets sky is horizontal.
At sunset, the horizontal glow was breathtaking.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine a flat surface or line running left to right, like lying down.
She drew a horizontal line on the paper.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Vertical
Remember that 'horizontal' is the opposite of 'vertical', which goes up and down.
The shelves were installed horizontally, not vertically.
Pro Tip 3/3Aligned with Horizon
Think of lying back to gaze at the sky; the line where earth meets sky is horizontal.
At sunset, the horizontal glow was breathtaking.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Imagine a flat surface or line running left to right, like lying down.
She drew a horizontal line on the paper.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Vertical
Remember that 'horizontal' is the opposite of 'vertical', which goes up and down.
The shelves were installed horizontally, not vertically.
Pro Tip 3/3Aligned with Horizon
Think of lying back to gaze at the sky; the line where earth meets sky is horizontal.
At sunset, the horizontal glow was breathtaking.
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The science of symmetry...
But when it occurs in animals, this kind of symmetry is known as radial symmetry. For instance, some sea urchins and starfish have pentaradial or five-fold symmetry, that is, symmetry with respect to rotations of 72 degrees around their center. This symmetry also appears in plants, as you can see for yourself by slicing through an apple horizontally.
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How We Can Make the...
Let me show you on this chart. So here on the vertical axis, I've put social progress, the stuff the Global Goals are trying to achieve. Higher is better. And then on the horizontal axis, is GDP per capita. Further to the right means richer. And in there, I'm now going to put all the countries of the world,
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Paul Tudor Jones II: Why...
On the horizontal axis is income inequality. The further to the right you go, the greater the income inequality. On the vertical axis are nine social and health metrics. The more you go up that, the worse the problems are, and those metrics include life expectancy, teenage pregnancy, literacy,
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Are we in control of our...
or the horizontal line on the table on the right, which one seems longer? Can anybody see anything but the left one being longer? No, right? It's impossible. But the nice thing about visual illusion is we can easily demonstrate mistakes. So I can put some lines on; it doesn't help.
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Why do cats have...
This may be because these pupils are especially useful in perceiving objects at the relative short distances these animals tend to hunt. The world looks very different from behind the horizontally elongated pupils of many grazing and browsing animals, like goats.
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Can you be awake and...
They slip into unihemispheric sleep while floating horizontally, holding their nostrils above the surface, closing their upward-facing eye, and keeping their downward-facing eye open. This may help them stay alert to threats from the depths.
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The role of disruption...
survive maybe they should again so we start with a human at the center and we look for the logic that threads the world together good or bad imbalance in a horizontal slice so through the whole world space and then we interrogate the
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Can you solve the Trojan...
plus neither side completely surrounds the other, peace will prevail. Anyone can move to a horizontally or vertically adjacent camp, but never diagonally. The problem is, they’re currently arranged like this.
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Brown-Banded Chunk-Headed...
lot of snakes it can actually support over half of its own body weight out on the horizontal like it's doing right now and this allows the snake to span gaps between twigs and branches and the fact
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The Secret World of...
powerful muscles in the Dragons thorax reorient the wings into their final horizontal position the dragonfly is now almost ready to take its maiden flight
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The science of symmetry...
But when it occurs in animals, this kind of symmetry is known as radial symmetry. For instance, some sea urchins and starfish have pentaradial or five-fold symmetry, that is, symmetry with respect to rotations of 72 degrees around their center. This symmetry also appears in plants, as you can see for yourself by slicing through an apple horizontally.
Video examples
How We Can Make the...
Let me show you on this chart. So here on the vertical axis, I've put social progress, the stuff the Global Goals are trying to achieve. Higher is better. And then on the horizontal axis, is GDP per capita. Further to the right means richer. And in there, I'm now going to put all the countries of the world,
Video examples
Paul Tudor Jones II: Why...
On the horizontal axis is income inequality. The further to the right you go, the greater the income inequality. On the vertical axis are nine social and health metrics. The more you go up that, the worse the problems are, and those metrics include life expectancy, teenage pregnancy, literacy,
Video examples
Are we in control of our...
or the horizontal line on the table on the right, which one seems longer? Can anybody see anything but the left one being longer? No, right? It's impossible. But the nice thing about visual illusion is we can easily demonstrate mistakes. So I can put some lines on; it doesn't help.
Video examples
Why do cats have...
This may be because these pupils are especially useful in perceiving objects at the relative short distances these animals tend to hunt. The world looks very different from behind the horizontally elongated pupils of many grazing and browsing animals, like goats.
Video examples
Can you be awake and...
They slip into unihemispheric sleep while floating horizontally, holding their nostrils above the surface, closing their upward-facing eye, and keeping their downward-facing eye open. This may help them stay alert to threats from the depths.
Video examples
The role of disruption...
survive maybe they should again so we start with a human at the center and we look for the logic that threads the world together good or bad imbalance in a horizontal slice so through the whole world space and then we interrogate the
Video examples
Can you solve the Trojan...
plus neither side completely surrounds the other, peace will prevail. Anyone can move to a horizontally or vertically adjacent camp, but never diagonally. The problem is, they’re currently arranged like this.
Video examples
Brown-Banded Chunk-Headed...
lot of snakes it can actually support over half of its own body weight out on the horizontal like it's doing right now and this allows the snake to span gaps between twigs and branches and the fact
Video examples
The Secret World of...
powerful muscles in the Dragons thorax reorient the wings into their final horizontal position the dragonfly is now almost ready to take its maiden flight
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
Our strategy is very horizontal. We're trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically, we're trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social, whether it's on the web or mobile or other devices. So inherently, our whole approach has to be a breadth-first approach rather than a depth-first one.
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James B. Stewart
American Journalist
Divestitures have long been the preferred remedy for horizontal mergers, where there's an overlap between the two companies. Airlines, for example, may have to sell routes or airport gates where the two airlines compete; cable operators may have to sell operations in cities where both companies operate.
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Kirk Franklin
American Singer
Most gospel music is very vertical. And there's nothing wrong with that - there's nothing wrong with, you know, 'God, we praise you,' and 'hallelujah.' Those songs are very important. But I also like to do songs that are very horizontal, that kind of fit within the fabric of people's everyday life.
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Gary Hamel
American Businessman
It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.
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Frank Miller
American Artist
Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.
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Stephen Cambone
American Politician
Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity.
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G. Willow Wilson
American Writer
To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.
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Holly Hunter
American Actress
It's always been my way to move about a little more horizontally. My career has never been like a shooting star.
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Agnes Martin
Canadian Artist
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.
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Jean Cocteau
French Director
Life is a horizontal fall.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
Our strategy is very horizontal. We're trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically, we're trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social, whether it's on the web or mobile or other devices. So inherently, our whole approach has to be a breadth-first approach rather than a depth-first one.
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James B. Stewart
American Journalist
Divestitures have long been the preferred remedy for horizontal mergers, where there's an overlap between the two companies. Airlines, for example, may have to sell routes or airport gates where the two airlines compete; cable operators may have to sell operations in cities where both companies operate.
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Kirk Franklin
American Singer
Most gospel music is very vertical. And there's nothing wrong with that - there's nothing wrong with, you know, 'God, we praise you,' and 'hallelujah.' Those songs are very important. But I also like to do songs that are very horizontal, that kind of fit within the fabric of people's everyday life.
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Gary Hamel
American Businessman
It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.
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Frank Miller
American Artist
Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.
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Stephen Cambone
American Politician
Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity.
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G. Willow Wilson
American Writer
To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.
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Holly Hunter
American Actress
It's always been my way to move about a little more horizontally. My career has never been like a shooting star.
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Agnes Martin
Canadian Artist
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.
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Jean Cocteau
French Director
Life is a horizontal fall.
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