Meaning

7 senses
  1. Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.

    horizontal lines

    horizontal, waagrecht, waagerecht

    горизонта́льныйgorizontálʹnyj

    горизонта́льнийhoryzontálʹnyj, позе́мнийpozémnyj, позе́мийpozémyj

    parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line

  2. Relating to horizontal markets

  3. Involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries.

  4. Having the two notes sound successively.

  5. (euphemistic)Relating to sexual intercourse.

    horizontal tango

  6. Being or relating to the transmission of organisms between biotic and/or abiotic members of an ecosystem that are not in a parent-progeny relationship.

    Infectious agents may spread by horizontal transmission.

  7. (archaic)Pertaining to the horizon.

Examples

23 sentences
  1. In my opinion, a well-designed website shouldn't require horizontal scrolling.

    deMeiner Meinung nach sollte eine gut aufgebaute Website kein horizontales Scrollen erfordern. — al_ex_an_der

  2. The stripes were horizontal.

    ruПолосы были горизонтальными. — odexed

    deDie Streifen waren waagerecht. — bonny37

  3. The exponential function has a horizontal asymptote.

    deDie Exponentialfunktion besitzt eine waagerechte Asymptote. — MUIRIEL

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  4. He made sure the images were horizontal.

  5. She made sure the images were horizontal.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
parallel to the plane of the horizon:
Русский
By meaning 1
parallel to the plane of the horizon:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
parallel to the plane of the horizon:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French horizontal, from horizon, horizonte, from Latin horizōn (stem

Borrowed from Middle French horizontal, from horizon, horizonte, from Latin horizōn (stem horizont-).

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