horizontal orientation

collocation in English

meaningsofhorizontalandorientation

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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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orientation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌɔː.ri.enˈteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɔːr.i.enˈteɪ.ʃən/
the particular things that a person prefers, believes, thinks, or ...
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(Definition ofhorizontalandorientationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, tomato plants had highly elongated and complex canopies that could not be easily measured from either a nadir orhorizontalorientation.
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There were 2 randomly interleaved staircases: 1 for vertical and 1 forhorizontalorientation.
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The major feature of this display is the nearlyhorizontalorientationof the predicted probability curve.
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Thehorizontalorientationof the skeleton and its uniform preservation indicates that it was buried by one event.
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Within the framework of the disparity energy neuron, this suggests that the monocular subunits of these ver tical-disparity detectors preferred oblique or evenhorizontalorientation.
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The maximum deflection of the beam, which occurs athorizontalorientation, is scaled based on the orientation of the beam for both axial and transverse deflections.
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If this is the role of surround suppression, one would expect to find more examples of surround suppression among cells tuned forhorizontalorientationthan for ver tical.
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With this convention, a horizontal elongation of the polar plot indicates a preference for vertical orientation, and a vertical elongation indicates a preference forhorizontalorientation.
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Wertheimer (1912) noted that if a line is first exposed in the vertical and then in thehorizontalorientation, it is perceived to rotate between the two positions.
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His still life compositions from this period are dominated by stable, interlocking rectangular formations in vertical andhorizontalorientation.
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The exterior walls of the building are panels of blue-green terra-cotta ceramic tiles, alternating with green-metal-framed windows, with a stronglyhorizontalorientation.
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The siphuncle is ventral, which could also be indicative of ahorizontalorientationin life, with broad, slightly inflated segments and continuous, radial, actinosiphonate, deposits.
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Brain cartilage is observed in some specimens, as well as a pair of aragonitic statoliths which helped the animal determinehorizontalorientationwhen swimming.
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Solid rocket engines may be fired in either a vertical orhorizontalorientation.
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Axial terms, which refer to either the vertical orhorizontalorientationof objects (e.g. left, above), were used consistently across languages.
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He commented that the gameplay works best with ahorizontalorientationor with multi-directional scrolling.
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The printer mechanism used an eight sided, seven position (56 character) print slug in ahorizontalorientation.
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The siphuncle is below the center -as viewed inhorizontalorientation- and is cylindrical in form.
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