horizontal section
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A horizontal section of the wood reveals the rings; a vertical section exposes the long lines of vessel elements, giving the familiar grain of the wood.
From Nature ● Apr. 2, 2019
This is illustrated by the horizontal section of the best-fit curve where the relationship between reported income and consumption is absent.
From Forbes ● Aug. 27, 2014
As its speed decreased, centrifugal force would lessen, and gravity would pull it in a slowly descending spiral toward the lower, more horizontal section.
From Time Magazine Archive
A circular horizontal section is more likely to make for thorough exhaustion of the material.
From Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by F. H. (Frank Henley) Leeds
A horizontal section at the load water-line in the ship-builder's draught.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
