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
Figs. 169-171.—Longitudinal section, plan and horizontal section of the rectangular type of Chaldæan temple.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir
The heat, considered in any given horizontal section of the furnace, will be intense in proportion to the thickness of the layer of charcoal that reaches it.
From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
