horizontal displacement

collocation in English

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horizontal
adjective
uk
/ˌhɒr.ɪˈzɒn.təl/us
/ˌhɔːr.ɪˈzɑːn.t̬əl/
parallel to the ground or to the bottom or top edge ...
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displacement
noun[U]
uk
/dɪˈspleɪs.mənt/us
/dɪˈspleɪs.mənt/
the situation in which people are forced to leave the place where they ...
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(Definition ofhorizontalanddisplacementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The abscissa of each figure is thehorizontaldisplacementof the robotic manipulator.
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Relationship betweenhorizontaldisplacementof the conical feeler and shearing force.
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Their deformations are again due to thehorizontaldisplacementof the low pressure vortex cores.
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The shearing force was detected fromhorizontaldisplacementof the conical feeler.
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They do include vertical hoisting of the component to the preset height and itshorizontaldisplacement along the straight line to the point of positioning.
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Thehorizontaldisplacementof the bulkhead responded linearly to the input voltage, which was the analogue of the horizontal displacement of the corresponding fluid particle.
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Percent change inhorizontaldisplacementof the eye during and after feedback was compared with the no-feedback baseline.
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Thehorizontaldisplacementof the contact area is proportional to the horizontal component of the applied force, and is calculated as a centroid of the gray-scale value.
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To induce such retinotopic misalignment of the target and mask we systematically varied the degree ofhorizontaldisplacementof the center of the ring-mask relative to that of the disk-target.
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But even if these long range arguments are strong, it may be difficult to decide which, if any, of the outcropping structures may have accomodated the largehorizontaldisplacement.
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Drive train speeds are measured and translated into vehicle speed which also generates forward or reversehorizontaldisplacementand machine position.
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Furthermore, calibration coefficients were identified for transforming the integration of gray-scale values into the normal force and for transforming thehorizontaldisplacementinto the shearing force.
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One problem which has not been mentioned so far, if my memory is correct, is ahorizontaldisplacement.
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Ahorizontaldisplacementof about 6 metres was accompanied by smaller vertical movements of varying sense.
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The device may permithorizontaldisplacement, known as tilt adjustment, and/or vertical displacement, known as height adjustment.
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Surface faulting stretched 80 km withhorizontaldisplacementup to 8 m and vertical slip in the range of 2-3 m.
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Thus, thehorizontaldisplacement, of that point, is indeed exactly sinusoidal by definition.
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By dating the alluvial fans in this segment, some studies conclude ahorizontaldisplacementrate of approximately 1 mm/yr.
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In hydrostatic equilibrium, the pressure of a fluid can depend only on altitude, not onhorizontaldisplacement.
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Vertical displacement of a projectile is not affected by the horizontal component of the launch velocity, and, conversely, thehorizontaldisplacementis unaffected by the vertical component.
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