Definition of Horizontal surface

1. Noun. A flat surface at right angles to a plumb line. "Park the car on the level"

Exact synonyms: Level
Specialized synonyms: Floor, Flooring, Paved Surface, Platform
Generic synonyms: Surface
Derivative terms: Level

Lexicographical Neighbors of Horizontal Surface

horizontal market
horizontal osteotomy
horizontal overlap
horizontal parallax
horizontal part of duodenum
horizontal part of facial canal
horizontal plane
horizontal plate of palatine bone
horizontal resorption
horizontal run
horizontal section
horizontal stabiliser
horizontal stabilizer
horizontal surface (current term)
horizontal tail
horizontal transmission
horizontal vertigo
horizontalis
horizontalism
horizontalist
horizontalists
horizontalities
horizontality
horizontalization
horizontalize
horizontalized
horizontalizes

Literary usage of Horizontal surface

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Civil Engineering by William John Macquorn Rankine, William J. Millar (1907)
"A horizontal surface is a surface which is everywhere perpendicular to the ... For a horizontal surface at the mean level of the sea, the dimensions of that ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"From this we can at once determine the nature of the illumination which would be produced on a horizontal surface if the arc lamp were suspended at a given ..."

3. Mechanics: An Elementary Text-book, Theoretical and Practical, for Colleges by Richard Glazebrook (1895)
"Thrust on a horizontal surface. A value has already been found for the resultant thrust on a horizontal surface exposed to fluid pressure. ..."

4. A Treatise of Mechanics, Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive by Olinthus Gregory (1815)
"... utid horizontal base the projection of abed upon the horizontal surface A BCD. II. Let us next consider any solid whatever cut into an indefinite number ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1835)
"Having first considered the rise of water in capillary tubes, he proceeds to find the weight of water raised by the horizontal surface of a solid elevated ..."

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